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| 4dd3a58 | Of course, we in the West like to pat ourselves on the back and say we're more tolerant, and we are--but tolerance is not the same thing as acceptance. It just means, "We think you're crazy and going to hell, but we won't kill you for it--we'll you. But you don't know who the Man in the Sky is, and we do." | humor religion religious-tolerance tolerance | Bill Maher | |
| 604e1a3 | New Rule: Democrats must get in touch with their inner asshole. I refer to the case of Van Jones, the man the Obama administration hired to find jobs for Americans in the new green industries. Seems like a smart thing to do in a recession, but Van Jones got fired because he got caught on tape saying Republicans are assholes. And they call it news! Now, I know I'm supposed to be all reinjected with yes-we-can-fever after the big health-care.. | politics | Bill Maher | |
| 82b00e4 | New Rule: The person who sat in my seat on the flight before me and could not finish the magazine crossword puzzle has to be ashamed of themselves. I don't know who you are, but "Desperate _____wives"? Nothing? A three-letter word for "Writing utensil, you're holding it in your hand." Here's one more for you: Four letters, begins with a , something you shouldn't be allowed to do this November." | Bill Maher | ||
| 1eb51c8 | New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means of touting your own personal hobbies. At least that's what I've always taught my kids, Panama Red and Jacuzzi. | bad-decisions baseball chicago chicago-cubs children humor names naming parenting parents sports sports-fans | Bill Maher | |
| 9735e48 | When the enemy gets to your citadel, your prided epicenter, everything's in play. | pentagon war-on-terror | Bill Maher | |
| dbccec4 | Bloodless revolutions are rare. | Bill Maher | ||
| 21502fd | New Rule: If the guy who makes up the poll questions at CNN doesn't want to do it anymore more, he should just quit. This is an actual recent poll question: "Would you like to live on the moon?" And the shocking results: No, as it turns out, we would not like to live on the moon. This is the cable news equivalent of being in a dead-end relationship with an idiot. "What are you thinking?" "I dunno, honey, I guess I was just wondering how man.. | Bill Maher | ||
| 7fb8911 | Of course, when you shut off your brain from rational analysis, book is dangerous. Taking literally ancient parables from thousands of years ago is much more dangerous than playing with a loaded gun. Ancient scrawls, written by different authors in different centuries with different agendas--yeah, let's get mad literal about . The literalness problem is compounded in religion by the circular logic of not being allowed to question anyth.. | biblical-literalism humor literalism logic rationality religion | Bill Maher | |
| 9b709a6 | New Rule: The White House doesn't have to release the dead Bin Laden photos, but don't pretend we can't take it. We've seen pictures of Britney Spears's vagina getting out of a car. Television has desensitizes us to violence, and porn has desensitized us to people getting shot in the eye. | culture humor osama-bin-laden porn violence | Bill Maher | |
| dd1660d | A diamond may be forever, but terrorism, promiscuously funded, will be too. Let's make the connection clearly by tracing the path of the diamond. Diamonds start out in the earth, and eventually that earth is part of a country, like Sierra Leone, Angola, or the Democratic Republic of Congo. In those countries, desperate battles for control have been going on for decades, and the armies that fight the battles finance their ambitions with di.. | humor war-on-terror women | Bill Maher | |
| b05355d | But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men. | feminism women | Bill Maher | |
| beba58c | New Rule: Getting up close and personal with sharks doesn't make you a wildlife enthusiast--it makes you dinner. An Austrian tourist wanted to get "face-to-face" with sharks, so he went diving in waters baited with bloody fish parts. And he got ate. A friend was asked to describe the man. He needed only two words: "Good chum." | jokes sharks | Bill Maher | |
| fb02438 | New Rule: Stop putting psychedelic screensavers on computers. I sit down to check my e-mail, and the next thing I know it's three days later, I'm in the desert, I'm banging on a drum, I'm naked, and somebody's pierced my dick. | humor technology | Bill Maher | |
| 3930d89 | New Rule: Stop leaving couches on the sidewalk. Besides being lazy and ugly, it's animal cruelty. You teach your dog not to pee on the couch, and then when you take him to the place he's supposed to pee, there's a couch. | humor pets | Bill Maher | |
| 203e6a6 | New Rule: Designers of women's Halloween costumes must admit that they're not even trying. They just choose a random profession, like nurse or referee, and put the word "sexy" in front of it, thereby perpetuating the idea of Halloween as a day when normally shy women release their inner sluts and parade around like vixens, and I just completely forgot what I was complaining about." | humor | Bill Maher | |
| 143cbe7 | New Rule: Let the Pope be Pope. An animal-rights group in Italy has asked Pope Benedict to give up his fur-trimmed cape and hat. To which the Pope replied, "Don't be hatin' on my cape, bitch." Sorry, but Popes are the original divas, they invented bling, they've been wearing outlandish outfits for a thousand years--almost as long as Elton John. The clothes, the jewels, the fancy palace...Those aren't just symbols of the Papacy, they are the.. | humor religion | Bill Maher | |
| c7196ed | In our neighborhood it's rare to find a kid who doesn't drink once in a while. But Soda never touches a drop--he doesn't need to. He gets drunk on just plain living. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 6bba714 | Uh, Miss Carlson," I said, standing at her desk after everybody else had gone on to their next class, "somebody told me you went to that guy's funeral the one the highway patrol shot." "Yes," SHe said. "I did." She didn't look like she was mad at me about it. She had real long eyelashes. I bet she was good-looking when she was young. "Was he a relative or something?" That was what I was afraid of. "No. Not even a friend really." She paused,.. | quoting-books the-past | S.E. Hinton | |
| 2ba73a3 | A guy that'll really listen to you, listen and care about what you're saying, is something rare. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| e5e7a65 | Socs were just guys after all. Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 6087773 | Greaser...greaser...greaser..." Steve singsonged. "O victim of environment, underprivileged, rotten, no-count hood!" | S.E. Hinton | ||
| f076e46 | Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold... - Johnny to Ponyboy | S.E. Hinton | ||
| ba821c7 | I wondered for a long time how to start that theme, how to start writing about something that was important to me. And I finally began like this: When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home... | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 2a3da91 | I can lie so easily that it spooks me sometimes-- Soda says it comes form reading so much. But then, Two-Bit lias all the time too, and he never opens a book. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 0ec029d | The move to render the presence of lesbians and gay men invisible in the intricate fabric of Black existence and survival is a move which contributes to fragmentation and weakness in the Black community. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 9817c70 | Black Lesbians are not a threat to the Black family. Many of us have families of our own. We are not white, and we are not a disease. We are women who love women. This does not mean we are going to assault your daughters in an alley on Nostrand Avenue. It does not mean we only think about sex, any more than you only think about sex. Even if you believe any of these stereotypes about Black Lesbians, begin to practice like you don't belie.. | Audre Lorde | ||
| e310f11 | your smile has been to war | Audre Lorde | ||
| 77669c6 | Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference -- those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older -- know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structures in order to d.. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 54ef671 | We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. | speaking-out work | Audre Lorde | |
| e5170a7 | All of our children are prey. How do we raise them not to prey upon themselves and each other? And this is why we cannot be silent, because our silences will come to testify against us out of the mouths of our children. | Audre Lorde | ||
| e18e788 | Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it's personal. And the world won't end. And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and pai.. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 5eeabb7 | I want to write rage but all that comes is sadness. We have been sad long enough to make this earth either weep or grow fertile. I am an anachronism, a sport, like the bee that was never meant to fly. Science said so. I am not supposed to exist. I carry death around in my body like a condemnation. But I do live. The bee flies. There must be some way to integrate death into living, neither ignoring it nor giving in to it. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 3c2e368 | Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 5403932 | No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman. | patriarchy | Audre Lorde | |
| 4d4f0aa | In a paradoxical sense, once I accepted my position as different from the larger society as well as from any single-sub-society--black or gay--I felt I didn't have to try so hard. To be accepted. To look femme. To be straight. To look straight. To be proper. To look "nice". To be liked. To be loved. To be approved. What I didn't realize was how much harder I had to try merely to stay alive, or rather, to stay human. How much stronger a pers.. | queerness self-realization sexuality | Audre Lorde | |
| 56db032 | Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. , to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically. Sadomasochism feeds the belief that domination is inevitable and legitima.. | Audre Lorde | ||
| ffcc2ab | Survival is the greatest gift of love | Audre Lorde | ||
| 9f6b776 | If ever a society could be said to meet all the mythological criteria of the next lost civilization - a society that ticks all the boxes - is it not obvious that it is our own? Our pollution and neglect of the majestic garden of the earth, our rape of its resources, our abuse of the oceans and the rainforests, our fear, hatred and suspicion of one another multiplied by a hundred bitter regional and sectarian conflicts, our consistent track .. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 06b9ea1 | In the eyes of Muslim fundamentalists, contemporary Western geopolitics in the Middle East are a continuation of the Crusades by modern means and so must be resisted to the death. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 78bcac7 | James Hillman so eloquently put it, "It was only when science convinced us that nature was dead that it could begin its autopsy in earnest." A living, aware, and soul-filled world does not respond well to autopsy." | Stephen Harrod Buhner | ||
| f5808e7 | Even with all Caroline had lost and forgotten, she knew a lot about archaeology and past civilizations. I often wondered if knowing all those things, only saddened her that she couldn't remember the rest. Though she had made peace with her life, it wasn't the first time I'd pondered whether deep down she might need a sense of normalcy that having a brick and mortar home would give her. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 3f88622 | Dead men were always a reminder that your own time would come one day. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 5b25fe6 | The Bird Park." We spent more time than I had expected to there -- nearly an hour. We walked across quaint bridges, saw flamingos and macaws and toucans, and a host of others. Ellen bought the appropriate bags of nourishment to feed the ducks, swans, and various colorful larger birds, some from South America, who would eat right out of her hand. She loved it, and the aviary was beautiful, the water and trees and birds. Secretly, however, I .. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 2d4a1b2 | It seemed her radar for picking the good ones was defective from the factory. It wasn't the kind of thing you could just return and swap for another one, either. Defective or not, she was stuck with it. | Bobby Underwood |