"Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming 'skeptics' or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream."

-- Elizabeth Kolbert

#Cutting Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes #Facts Quotes

“If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?”
“I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.”
“No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.”
“I have no skeletons in my closet.”
“I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.”
“Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications.”
“The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.”
“What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change.”

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