#venti

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. ↗

— John Major

#authentic #back #conservative #conventional #course

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#intervention #keen #only #peace #people

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special. ↗

— Marc Maron

#could #great #name #probably #seventies

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. ↗

— Jeremiah Wright

#against #color #genocide #government #hiv

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#america #because #country #everybody #information

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares? ↗

— Joel Coen

#amount #amusing #because #behave #cares

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#conventions #despicable #human #human nature #nature

I lead a very conventional life. ↗

— Joan Didion

#i #lead #life #very

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent. ↗

— Ray Dolby

#invent #inventing #learn #people #skill