November 2012
8 posts
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“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
thejunglefish: tuesday →
I don’t mean to offend or bore you, but this is the place I’m in circa now.
The world is an increasingly scary place. I think you all know that just from turning on your televisions or laptops—or, hell, for some of you, from just looking out the window. There are mass protests in the name of democracy against the regimes of dictators; there is violence against innocent children who just want an...
“Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could...”
– Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
October 2012
56 posts
“For days and days, coverage of the Malala case has shown clearly that the...”
– A Pakistani Taliban commander in South Waziristan accuses the lamestream media of bias in its coverage of the Malala shooting. Right then. (via newsweek)
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“They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without...”
– A.S. Byatt, Possession
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
– Oscar Wilde
“-before leaving my room
i turn, and (stooping
through the morning) kiss
this...”
– e.e. cummings, excerpt from “dive for dreams”
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the...”
– Ernest Hemingway
“You cannot build without destroying what previously exists.”
– Tristan Tzara
NPR Fresh Air: Several of Perry’s films are told... →
nprfreshair:
Several of Perry’s films are told from female perspectives, which he says was a result of his childhood experience. “My father who was there in the house, he wasn’t at all a role model,” he tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross.
