I’ve tried to distance myself from the RISE initiative based off a gut feeling I had. I’ve done little things here and there, but I wasn’t included in the Super Bowl thing they did, and it’s something I felt in my gut from the beginning. I respect the work that they’ve done, but things aren’t aligning for me so I try to stay away from it. Kenny Stills Read Quote
I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts. Hedy Lamarr Read Quote
D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
When you’re a writer on a show, your job is to write in the show runner’s voice, really. Noah Hawley Read Quote
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it – what is said. Hans-Georg Gadamer Read Quote
When I started in 1978, the greatest wine in Spain, Vega Sicilia, wasn’t even imported to the United States. The alleged greatest Australian wine, Penfolds Grange, wasn’t imported to the United States. There were no by-the-glass programs. Sommeliers were intimidating. Robert M. Parker, Jr. Read Quote
Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours’ lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live. Shimon Peres Read Quote
