August 2011
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“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
– The Whole Earth Catalog
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve...”
– Steve Jobs, in his Stanford commencement speech
A brilliant man. Good luck.
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“It’s funny the different reactions. In England, when Draco and Voldemort hugged,...”
– Tom Felton
I find cultural differences super interesting. (And yes, my whole theater laughed at that part.)
“It’s almost poetic that the greatest moments were not always necessarily...”
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I think it’s adorable how in every video of Tom Felton Q&As at conventions,
he calls everyone sweetheart or lovely (which he apparently also does when meeting fans. Why did I miss my chance to meet him?? :( also I think this is something I would only find cute in a British accent, otherwise I’d probably think it’s super cheesy haha)
there are always at least 3+ instances in...
“Sometimes in life, you just have to do certain things because it would make a cool story.”
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“I’m not going to mislead anybody. Politics is really hard. And it is harder for...”
– Hillary Clinton On Politics & The Double Standard For Women
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“Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no...”
– Hermann Hesse, Gertrude
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topographe:
There comes a time when you stop fighting to stretch the skin you’ve been given into something it is not and simply let it keep your muscles in place. And you realize the sun feels much nicer this way, and that your fingers don’t have to work as hard. It doesn’t hurt to move as much when you have your eyes closed. Your feet write poetry on the dust, and your heartbeat keeps steady...
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“There is a fundamental reason why we look at the sky with wonder and longing—for...”
– Jerry Waxman (via suzywire, inourdays) (via blanked)
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Tropes vs. Women: "Women in Refrigerators" →
Who remembers the 1994 issue of Green Lantern #54 where Kyle Rayner finds that his girlfriend, Alex DeWitt has been brutally murdered and stuffed into a fridge? Okay, well I’ve never actually read Green Lantern but thankfully Gail Simone did, because she began to see a trend. Simone was sick of seeing “superheroines who have been either depowered, raped, or cut up and stuck in the...
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