“ She loves good food, she always wants to eat in good restaurants, and the shoes, the best clothes, the best everything. See, I believe in less, but my wife believe in best.
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry on why he still performs in his 70’s - Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry: “When I was a man, I was a cannibal”
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Palestinian bookshop owner celebrates Jerusalem residency ruling
The threat stemmed from Fahmi’s absence from Jerusalem for almost 20 years, which resulted in him losing his residency permit. Despite having been born and brought up in Jerusalem, he had been forced to rely on a series of tourist visas since returning in 1997.
“ as he had access to the official monitoring reports, he regularly read details of her life with a close interest
Undercover police had children with activists
“ I’d rather cry in a BMW.
Aspiring actress and contestant on Chinese dating show ‘If You Are the One’ - China TV censor dating show
“ its frustrating the BBC couldn’t think of 12 human female faces who have made the news this year
Labour MP Stella Creasy - Pandagate: anger as BBC chooses Tian Tian as December woman 2011
Of the 12 “women” picked, a quarter were there for marrying someone and one was a panda bear.
“ They have accepted popular [non-violent] resistance
Mohammed Shtayyer - senior Fatah official Israel ‘will launch significant Gaza offensive sooner or later’
Israel’s response to Hamas’ recent official policy change, rejecting an unending armed struggle and accepting non-violent resistance, is to prepare to bomb them. Again.
“ A number of weapons have been recovered from the scene. Whether I’ve got the murder weapon I don’t know.
Detective Chief Inspector Mark Dunne (Metropolitan police’s homicide command) after boy stabbed to death at a Foot Locker during Boxing Day sales - Man stabbed to death on Oxford Street
“ Twitter is a signal, just like looking at the words in The New York Times or Google Books. They’re all a sample[.]
Peter Dodds (applied mathematician) - Twitter math study: Happiness in decline | Great Falls Tribune
If you’ve lost the childhood excitement for opening presents, perhaps misanthropic fantasy worlds where you are opened instead will provide substitute cheer.
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I know Einstein rested on his laurels after his annus mirabilis but c’mon, puppetry? Get back to work genius.
(Source: fuckindiva)
“ He looks more and more like a Ralph Steadman sketch.
Dennis Perrin (a friend and former protégée of Hitchens describing his descent into drunken war mongering) - Salon.com » Christopher Hitchens and the protocol for public figure deaths Mobile
“ Growing up in a large family never leaves you. I still catch myself looking at other people’s clothes, thinking: One day that shirt will be mine.
Eddie Naessens - Standup Comity - The Morning News
