#nation

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#comparison #dreams #imaginations #reality #seems

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#boston #feminist #international #liberal #like

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination? ↗

— Jean Claude Duvalier

#get #had #hear #i #imagination

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#got #mean #means #resignation #something

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#class #ever #haggard #joe #merle

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought. ↗

— Juan Cole

#also #arab #argued #before #easy

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators. ↗

— Juan Cole

#american #american administration #arrogant #been #believe

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#important #nation #need #people #safe

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination. ↗

— Phil Collins

#album #although #been #combination #davis