“I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.” I CanPrideProudAmelia Author:Lorraine Toussaint
“When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.” ThinkingArtWould BeFormOpportunityLeftNakedVanityTruthful Author:Lorraine Toussaint
“In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, that even in this overdeveloped late-capitalist world, that boredom was still this kind of critical energy that you could work on and try to theorize and then act on, to find other kinds of belonging, other kinds of desire, other kinds of life.” WorldTryingKindDesireUniverseEnergyDangerBoredomBelongingTease Author:McKenzie Wark
“Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.” RealityMaterialsFundamentals Author:Anton Zeilinger
“I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange.” WritingI CanWaitingDefenseStrikesDronesAssange Author:Michael Grunwald
“When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.” WayActorsFootballGrewGrew UpLike MeLadPlaying Football Author:Sean Harris
“I used to like Barbra Streisand films. It was Funny Girl that really turned me on, in a sense, to acting. I remember it specifically being a rainy Saturday afternoon. I couldnt play football, so I stayed in, and I watched Funny Girl.” PlayRememberFilmUsedGirlActingFootballAfternoonSaturdayRainyStreisandSaturday AfternoonFunny Girl Author:Sean Harris
“The lion's share of the bear market is over, ... It's a two-part issue. Yes, the marketplace could be nasty. But there's a great deal of nastiness that's already happened in the bond market.” TwoDealsIssuesHappenedShareBearsOver ItLionsNastyMarketplaceNastinessBond Market Author:Paul McCulley
“The essence of the problem is that the war against inflation is over, ... Ever since 1979 the Fed was fighting a war against inflation, and you always knew which way you wanted the inflation rate to go over the long run -- down.” WayLongWarProblemRunningWantedFightingEssenceRateFedsLong RunsInflation Author:Paul McCulley