I am much more interested in defending my ideas than defending my identities.
— Ilhan Omar, Ilhan Omar's influence already expanding in Congress
I am much more interested in defending my ideas than defending my identities.
— Ilhan Omar, Ilhan Omar's influence already expanding in Congress
So I know many [Members of Congress] were fighting for people to be free, for people to live in dignity in South Africa… So I know that they care about these things. But now that you have two Muslims who are saying, here is a group of people that we want to make sure that they have the dignity that…
— Ilhan Omar, Reps. Omar and Tlaib: Anti-Semitism charges shut down criticism of Israel
To me, it’s something that becomes designed to end the debate because you get in this space of – yes, I know what intolerance looks like and I’m sensitive when someone says, ‘The words you used Ilhan, are resemblance of intolerance.’ And I am cautious of that and I feel pained by that. But it’s almo…
— Ilhan Omar, Reps. Omar and Tlaib: Anti-Semitism charges shut down criticism of Israel
We’re here, we’re here to stay and represent the voice of the people who have been silenced for many decades and generations.
— Ilhan Omar, Reps. Omar and Tlaib: Anti-Semitism charges shut down criticism of Israel
What is really important to me is that people recognize that there is a difference between criticizing a military action by a government that has exercised really oppressive policies and being offensive or attacking to particular people of faith.
— Ilhan Omar, Rep. Ilhan Omar defends 2012 tweet accusing Israel of 'evil doings'
I want to tell you that every word you utter is perfect, that you have the most amazing mind, the most buoyant and fierce voice I’ve encountered in my life. I want to tell you that you are absolute perfection.
— Pat Pace, Before I Propose, A Few Last Words I Can’t Quite Say
On April 8, 1960, famed planetary astronomer Frank Drake turned the radio telescope at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia toward Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani, two Sun-like stars about 11 light years away from Earth.
— DANIEL OBERHAUS, How Dolphins on LSD Shaped the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
I think in feelings and see this world through birds.
We want more vape vids. Don't do it. We don't want you to die.
Would he rather work for Apple or Trump? Either, the longtime salesman says.
It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.
Just because George R.R. Martin wrote the original Game of Thrones novels, that doesn't mean he knows how the series is going to end. But he does know how he feels about it ending, and he's not shy about sharing those thoughts.
— Brittany Vincent, Game of Thrones Is Ending This Year, And Author George R.R. Martin Has Thoughts
They clearly wish these things hadn’t happened to them. But if they must be here, recounting private traumas for an often critical public, they want you to know it could just have easily been you.
— Katie Heaney, The Psychological Power of the Second Person
Alejandro Aranda's amazing full audition leaves the American Idol judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie speechless! See him perform TWO original songs "Out Loud" and "Cholo Love."
— American Idol, Alejandro Aranda AMAZING Full Audition Leaves Judges Speechless
When she debuted, Barbie's gaze was cast downward. But with the 1971 Malibu Barbie, Mattel tilted them up to be level. “Suddenly, she goes from being object to subject,” Foreman notes.
The baobab trunks are thick and bulbous and fat.
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The internet and the wider realm of digital technologies can be harnessed differently. This work begins with us.
— SHOSHANA ZUBOFF, The real reason why Facebook and Google won’t change
The problem with living with other vampires are the vampires I have chosen to stay with.
We don’t want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished. We want to recognize the actual policies that are behind the pretty face and the smile.