#cade

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#balance #balances #branches #check #checking

Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#clouded #compelling #decade #despite #even

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade. ↗

— Joan Didion

#after #anyway #before #begun #berkeley

I consider it probably one of the biggest honors to be in the Academy. There are only like 1300 actors in it, and as far as I know, you're a member for life. To this day, I'm wondering how lucky I was. ↗

— William Sanderson

#as far as #biggest #consider #day #far

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism. ↗

— David Eagleman

#decade #extremism #first #going #i

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#academy award #award #best #great #haven

The Academy is paranoid about its image. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#academy #image #paranoid

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#destruction #i #implements #interested #mass

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#adventure #chicago #city #downtown #dream

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#another #cancel #drives #every #expert