#rna

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. ↗

— Simone Weil

#else #genius #humility #nothing #real

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#become #celebrities #computers #culture #distance

You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament. ↗

— Mike Weir

#behind #nine #six #still #tournament

We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#getting #good #incarnation #long #master

Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#banned #carried #chinese #danced #hundreds

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#funding #instead #more #prisons #sentencing

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. ↗

— Rebecca West

#clumsy #gestures #imperfect #international #knowledge

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. ↗

— Rebecca West

#challenge #filling #journalism #meet #space

When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#between #calls #doing #drifts #guy

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies. ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#journalist