#rally

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #conservative #conserve #conserving #could

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#creations #culturally #economically #generation #language

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#bringing #cheated #childhood #comedy #controlled

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#consume #day #dieting #ease #eat

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#i #person #pragmatic #very #which

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#elegant #excellency #generally #heart #taste

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse. ↗

— Joe Clark

#bad #captions #closed #course #create

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#begins #ceases #clothing #constitute #fruits

The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#asked #because #get #hard #hardest

San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be. ↗

— Les Claypool

#been #com #culturally #different #diverse