Person: Hi I'm Christian.
Me: Cool.
Person: Hi I'm Jewish.
Me: Cool.
Person: Hi I'm Muslim.
Me: Cool.
Person: Hi I'm Wiccan.
Me: Cool.
Person: Hi I'm atheist.
Me: Cool.
Person: Hi I'm Buddhist.
Me: Cool.
Person: Hi I'm Hindu.
Me: Cool.
Person: Hi I believe in this and you're wrong so I'm going to tell you all about how wrong you are.
Me: Get the fuck out of my face before I hit you in the face with a frozen turkey.
But I love the football that brings people together across religious divides, geographic divides, political divides. I love the fact that for ninety minutes in a rectangular piece of grass, people can forget, hopefully, whatever might be going on in their life and rejoice in this communal celebration of humanity. The biggest diverse, invasive or pervasive culture that human kind knows is football and I love the fact that, at the altar of football, human kind can come worship and celebrate. x
Beirut - Nantes
Well it’s been a long time, long time now
since I’ve seen you smile
And I’ll gamble away my fright
and I’ll gamble away my time
Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they’re special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person and only attracts more love in your life.
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| — | Amy Poehler (via thebostonhomo) |
The SAT is a scam. It has been around for 50 years. It has never measured anything. And it continues to measure nothing. And the whole game is that everybody who does well on it, is so delighted by their good fortune that they don’t want to attack it. And they are the people in charge. Because of course, the way you get to be in charge is by having high test scores. So it’s this terrific kind of rolling scam that every so often, somebody sort of looks and says—well, you know, does it measure intelligence? No. Does it predict college grades? No. Does it tell you how much you learned in high school? No. Does it predict life happiness or life success in any measure? No. It’s measuring nothing.
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| — | John Katzman, founder of The Princeton Review (via an-introspective-heart) |
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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| — | John Green, Paper Towns (via fallinginlovewithelephants) |
