“There is nothing wrong with you. You’re amazing. I love you. When I look at you I see a complex human being with awesome potential but some others will look at you and see a thug. Even if their only evidence is your skin. Their racism relates to larger anxieties and problems in America that you didn’t create. When someone is racist toward you—either because they’ve profiled you or spat some slur or whatever—they are saying they have a problem. They are not speaking about you. They’re speaking about themselves and their deficiencies.”
“Unemployment is down, confidence is up, DOW 5,000 above Bush - or as Republicans put it, let’s talk about gay people and abortion!”
(via drinkthe-koolaid)
![imwithkanye:
The Proust Smackdown: Clooney vs. Craig vs. Damon! Hollywood’s three most outspoken leading men fill out Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire. Check out a few answers from the February issue. [Cover]
George Clooney:
If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be? My dog — he lives better.
Matt Damon:
When and where were you happiest? In our bed, making our children, and in the hospital watching them being born.
Daniel Craig:
What is your most treasured possession? Apart from my penis and my health?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx8kg4YsGy1qanm80o1_1280.png)
The Proust Smackdown: Clooney vs. Craig vs. Damon! Hollywood’s three most outspoken leading men fill out Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire. Check out a few answers from the February issue. [Cover]
George Clooney:
If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be? My dog — he lives better.
Matt Damon:
When and where were you happiest? In our bed, making our children, and in the hospital watching them being born.
Daniel Craig:
What is your most treasured possession? Apart from my penis and my health?
“People have sex for a lot of different reasons, and one of them is to be soothed and comforted”
(via huffingtonpost)
“The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is. … A manly man don’t want it piled high with vegetables! He would call that a sissy pizza.”
Who else but…
[Herman Cain: Sissy Men Eat Vegetable Pizza]
(via buzzfeed)(via buzzfeed)
I think my heart permanently melted.
(via truejerseygirl)
“During the three weeks I traveled in Australia, I was often asked, with genuine bafflement and considerable sympathy, how the world’s greatest nation had become captive to a band of ideologues and fundamentalists, how the American dream — a beacon to people everywhere — had become so powerless to deliver on its promise of opportunity for all.”
(via huffingtonpost)
The Big Chill - Rationalizations
Michael Gold (Jeff Goldblum):
I don't know anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex.
Sam Weber (Tom Berenger):
Ah, come on. Nothing's more important than sex.
Michael Gold:
Oh yeah? Ever gone a week without a rationalization?
“We cooperate and we fight as hard as we can, because there will perhaps be disappointment but there will be no shame.”
“You wouldn’t be doing any of this if one of the objectives was not to increase the amount of pussy that was available to you. That is what you do. You don’t do it to be, ah, the most approval-rated governor of New York, for fuck’s sake.”
(via motherjones)
“A lot of people would say, ‘I would rather have a heart attack at the height of sexual passion.’ On the whole, I would prefer to be killed by a bookcase.”
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard - How Tom Stoppard Would Like to Die
“What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?”
“I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example, and I looked out at the buildings and I began to think, you know, about how much the radius of the Hiroshima bomb damage was and so forth… How far from here was 34th street?… All those buildings, all smashed — and so on. And I would see people building a bridge, or they’d be making a new road, and I thought, they’re crazy, they just don’t understand, they don’t understand. Why are they making new things? It’s so useless.”
“Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax.”
