"The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical ***** affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks."

-- Michael Kinsley

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“If you write for children with respect and treat them with dignity - you'll capture the adults as well. Children deserve nothing but our very best. Nothing but excellence will do for the young, because the responsibility is greater. We write up for children, never down.”
“If it doesnâ€™t have ambiguity, donâ€™t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photographyâ€”the mendacity of photographyâ€”itâ€™s got to have some kind of peculiarity in it or itâ€™s not interesting to me.”
“It's the character identification people remember, it's not so much remembering the movie; they just know that I'm a badass. I was a badass in Chicago before the movies ever came out. I was a badass on the football field - that's why they call me "the Hammer." I don't lean back on one particular picture, because I've done so many of them. But they all have the same common thing: I'm a badass.”

Source : Source: torontoist.com
“Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.”
“Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.”
“Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed”

Source : "The Rediscovery of the Mind". Book by John Searle, 1992.
“We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.”
“My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!”

Source : "Gravity Falls' Alex Hirsch on his show's big cliffhanger". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. March 11, 2015.

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