#ena

Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch. ↗

— Mark Davis

#another #bailey #barbara #barbara boxer #being

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore. ↗

— Bjork

#because #got #i #iceland #london

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. ↗

— Peter Davison

#enable #invented #people #poetry #prayers

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations. ↗

— Cofer Black

#collecting #counterterrorism #develop #enable #havens

I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie. ↗

— Jack Black

#days #doing #early #i #just

I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with. ↗

— Jack Black

#arsenal #come #entertainment #going #i

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#hard #hard rock #i #love #moved

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God. ↗

— William Blackstone

#considered #enactment #god #law #man

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#completely #fan #feel #i #me

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#anything #ask #creating #each #equity