#gen

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male. ↗

— Julia Child

#be true #because #benevolent #female #generation

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. ↗

— Lee Child

#genuinely #her #i #lying #making

L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever. ↗

— Lee Child

#car #cars #climate #fantastic #forever

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#genetics #get #gets #good #i

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#bill #congress #emergency #great #large

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#change #else #forever #generous #life

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#act #agencies #attacks #each #fully

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#even #fixed #free #generation #infinitely

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#impose #institutions #moral #people #powerful

States are not moral agents. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#moral #states