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I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#academia #also #carpet #course #courtroom

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance. ↗

— Catherine Crier

#case #certain #certain kinds #decided #defense

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#clean #driven #find #himself #instance

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#because #clean #driven #find #himself

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#business #countries #does #driven #enormous

For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that. ↗

— Devon Sawa

#different #doing #film #go #i

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.' ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git