| #2801: | Every decision in life is an act of triage: doing the best you can with inadequate resources.
— Mon Mar 15 2010 15:40 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2802: | Everyone remembers the actor who uttered the famous line. No one remembers the screenwriter who wrote it.
— Mon Mar 15 2010 17:22 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2803: | The fundamental challenge of life is overcoming your past to master your own future.
— Mon Mar 15 2010 18:11 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2804: | @YouGoChavez "I respectfully disagree... atheism is not religion, it is the antithesis to religion." So how do you prove there is no God?
— Mon Mar 15 2010 19:32 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2805: | Personality, like addiction, is impervious to reason. It construes the world in such a way that no other personality is possible.
— Tue Mar 16 2010 07:52 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2806: | There are people you can speak your mind to and others you have to tiptoe around. Those tiptoe ones are dangerous and should be avoided.
— Tue Mar 16 2010 08:19 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2807: | Every attempt to do good also has the potential of causing harm, for which you are now responsible.
— Tue Mar 16 2010 12:36 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2808: | If you are a creative artist with a wide portfolio, one of your best career moves is to die. It has been the key to success for thousands!
— Tue Mar 16 2010 12:51 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2809: | When buying candy or snack foods, your worse value is always the bigger package. (Because you'll eat it all!)
— Tue Mar 16 2010 13:43 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2810: | Reporting from Wal-Mart: Now my whole cashews are made with sea salt and are "Health Baked with Fiber". Why must life be so complicated?
— Tue Mar 16 2010 15:41 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2811: | Reporting from Wal-Mart: What is a "Kardashian" and why should I care?
— Tue Mar 16 2010 15:55 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2812: | More knowledge isn't always good. It has to be _relevant_ knowledge, more important to seek than any other.
— Thu Mar 18 2010 13:46 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2813: | Reading the tweets of @LesterHoltNBC as he sits across the table from me. Flipped the screen around to prove it to him!
— Thu Mar 18 2010 14:50 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2814: | New photo album: Escondido Renaissance Faire (Nov. 2006) http://bit.ly/bEA0IP - Lords and ladies!
— Fri Mar 19 2010 23:58 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2815: | Every attempt to do good also has the potential of causing harm, for which you are then responsible.
— Sat Mar 20 2010 00:48 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2816: | There has never been a time when merchants haven't said "There's never been a better time!" to buy whatever they're selling.
— Sat Mar 20 2010 21:00 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2817: | On national TV news magazines, the "correspondent" is little more than an actor, reading lines given to him by an off-screen producer.
— Sun Mar 21 2010 10:26 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2818: | My album of Best Animal Photos: http://bit.ly/a5Qgkz
— Mon Mar 22 2010 00:53 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2819: | New photo album: Kauai, Hawaii, with a disposable camera: http://bit.ly/c5JZmd
— Mon Mar 22 2010 00:54 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2820: | "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." — George Bernard Shaw
— Mon Mar 22 2010 11:00 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2821: | The fundamental dilemma of public healthcare is there's no limit to how much can be spent on it. When do you say, "No more treatment"?
— Mon Mar 22 2010 11:17 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2822: | Excellent! I have Bond in custody. I plan to kill him, but before I do I think I'll reveal to him my evil plan. What can possibly go wrong?
— Mon Mar 22 2010 23:51 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2823: | Irony of insurance and public health care: less incentive for a healthy lifestyle. The system will protect you from obesity, smoking, etc.
— Tue Mar 23 2010 12:43 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2824: | Those who soak up heath care resources are not so much innocent children but smokers and obese adults who had a choice about their health.
— Tue Mar 23 2010 12:49 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2825: | Good health, to a large extent, is a personal choice. There will always be diseases and accidents you have no control over but most you do.
— Tue Mar 23 2010 12:51 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2826: | The bottom line of life is that no one can protect you from your own decisions.
— Tue Mar 23 2010 13:21 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2827: | Health care emotions: No one should suffer from a treatable disease. The reality: There will never be enough resources to treat everyone.
— Tue Mar 23 2010 15:25 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2828: | Photo album: Oahu, Hawaii (2007) http://bit.ly/bgBwr5
— Tue Mar 23 2010 16:12 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2829: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] — Wed Mar 24 2010 20:26 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2830: | Anyone can appreciate beauty. Only the arrogant think they can own it.
— Wed Mar 24 2010 20:31 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2831: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] — Wed Mar 24 2010 22:02 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2832: | Beauty becomes ordinary as soon as you own it. After that it's just words.
— Wed Mar 24 2010 22:03 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2833: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] — Wed Mar 24 2010 22:39 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2834: | There will always be people who subjugate their lives to real estate. That doesn't mean it's right for you.
— Wed Mar 24 2010 22:42 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2835: | Living on next to nothing is easy. The problem is living with all the obligations you accumulated when you thought you had more.
— Thu Mar 25 2010 02:33 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2836: | Happiness should not be confused with euphoria. Drugs can give you euphoria, but true happiness lasts longer.
— Thu Mar 25 2010 02:37 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2837: | New photo album: Waikiki Beach, Hawaii. http://bit.ly/d8dWYe
— Thu Mar 25 2010 18:11 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2838: | New photo album: Oahu Shore. http://bit.ly/awGVX5
— Thu Mar 25 2010 18:12 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2839: | New photo album: Oahu. http://bit.ly/bgBwr5 (2007)
— Thu Mar 25 2010 18:14 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2840: | Best writing guide ever! (for film, fiction) http://bit.ly/cGAAUM "Rules of thumb from Mamet; funny and, mostly, undeniable." @MJMcKean
— Thu Mar 25 2010 22:20 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2841: | The pain of life is largely the product of naïve investments.
— Thu Mar 25 2010 23:42 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2842: | June may be charming, but as soon as you marry her you'll have the whole rest of the year to contend with.
— Thu Mar 25 2010 23:52 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2843: | The pain of life is largely the product of naïve investments that don't turn out as expected.
— Thu Mar 25 2010 23:54 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2844: | Too many times I have watched children do something creative, inspired and funny only to be scolded by their parents for that behavior.
— Fri Mar 26 2010 01:03 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2845: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] — Fri Mar 26 2010 03:21 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2846: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] — Fri Mar 26 2010 17:56 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2847: | Taking pictures is only half the art of photography. The other half is the editing afterwards, especially selection and cropping.
— Fri Mar 26 2010 18:03 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2848: | What we see at first as love often becomes a prison.
— Fri Mar 26 2010 19:27 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2849: | Popularity is not a measure of quality, only a measure of marketing.
— Fri Mar 26 2010 19:51 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2850: | Quality is a lonely business.
— Fri Mar 26 2010 19:54 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2851: | Whenever quality becomes associated with a certain signal, some interloper will learn to reproduce the signal without the quality.
— Fri Mar 26 2010 19:59 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2852: | What's really inside the secret Vatican archives? Bullshit! Century after century of utter bullshit.
— Fri Mar 26 2010 22:42 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2853: | If warning shots across the bow don't work, you have to aim for the ship.
— Sat Mar 27 2010 03:06 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2854: | New photo album from today's travels: Chattanooga Choo-Choo http://bit.ly/drvgmu
— Sat Mar 27 2010 04:38 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2855: | Narcissism is the delusion that the world exists "for me". Few will escape from it and see the world for what it really is.
— Sat Mar 27 2010 10:51 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2856: | People mostly believe what they are told to believe — by others and by their own ego. Few have the strength to form their own opinions.
— Sat Mar 27 2010 11:02 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2857: | Your "theory of love" guides your romantic life. At first, it is naïve and narcissistic, but disaster will refine it — if you survive.
— Sat Mar 27 2010 11:22 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2858: | Human Etiquette 101: When someone says, "How are you?" you are supposed to say, "Fine, thanks!" No one expects you to truthfully answer.
— Sat Mar 27 2010 12:14 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2859: | Take any food you crave. First helping: fantastic! 2nd: good. 3rd: okay. 4th: tedious. 5th: gross! Same applies to every attraction.
— Sat Mar 27 2010 12:44 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2860: | The appeal of something is usually greatest upon first discovery. After repeated exposure, interest rapidly diminishes to ordinaryness.
— Sat Mar 27 2010 12:49 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2861: | Government is a process that starts with passion but ends in lifeless bureaucracy.
— Sat Mar 27 2010 15:06 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2862: | The most dangerous people, regardless of their beliefs, are those with absolute moral certainty about what should be done.
— Sat Mar 27 2010 17:00 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2863: | The sadness of life is how much there is to do and how little of it we can actually do.
— Sun Mar 28 2010 11:21 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2864: | You worry about money when you don't have enough of it, but once that need is solved, time becomes your worry. You can't buy more of it!
— Sun Mar 28 2010 11:44 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2865: | Ever seen a $500 slot machine? Here it is: http://bit.ly/bthruf
— Sun Mar 28 2010 12:14 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2866: | On my bucket list: Have every twist and turn of my love life chronicled on the covers of supermarket tabloids.
— Sun Mar 28 2010 16:26 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2867: | I've been a lot of places, but I still have a "bucket list" of things to do before I die. http://bit.ly/9fZDfm - My dreams are modest.
— Sun Mar 28 2010 17:00 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2868: | God is a crutch for people who have nothing else to go on.
— Mon Mar 29 2010 03:13 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2869: | Life is a struggle with desperation, hoping to achieve something before you leave.
— Mon Mar 29 2010 03:15 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2870: | If you aren't flirting with depression, you should question whether you're really alive.
— Mon Mar 29 2010 03:16 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2871: | Hollywood is the refuge of bad writers.
— Mon Mar 29 2010 03:23 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2872: | A relationship isn't necessarily a cure for loneliness. Sometimes it's just another kind — a form of loneliness with much less control.
— Mon Mar 29 2010 03:50 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2873: | It is a great and difficult skill to be able to see the world for what it is rather than what you want it to be.
— Mon Mar 29 2010 10:51 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2874: | It is the nature of our society to worship actors — people who only pretend to do things — while people who actually do them are ignored.
— Mon Mar 29 2010 10:54 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2875: | The most insidious prison is one of comfort, robbing us of the incentive to change.
— Tue Mar 30 2010 00:26 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2876: | New photo album from today's travels: Ottawa, Canada. http://bit.ly/baYpeS
— Tue Mar 30 2010 00:41 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2877: | New photo album from today's travels: The Thousand Islands. http://bit.ly/9Ms79M
— Tue Mar 30 2010 00:42 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2878: | To those who already have a conscience, law is more an obstruction of morality than an expression of it.
— Tue Mar 30 2010 09:29 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2879: | "Progress means replacing something wrong with something more subtly wrong." via @scott_local
— Tue Mar 30 2010 21:14 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2880: | Sadly, the things that society appreciates you for (and is willing to pay you for) aren't usually the most important things to be doing.
— Wed Mar 31 2010 14:39 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2881: | VIDEO GAME OUTRAGE! We'd have no idea there was a rape video game in Japan if the US news media hadn't promoted it so heavily. Way to go!
— Wed Mar 31 2010 15:10 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2882: | "Very little is included. All the stuff we really want is extra." @TheBosha - But the extras we want rarely improve our lives.
— Wed Mar 31 2010 17:09 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2883: | Ex-Python John Cleese is still in form in this informative podcast on the brain: http://bit.ly/9V7yKb (2008) - More at: http://bit.ly/cB6mjI
— Wed Mar 31 2010 18:01 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2884: | The skill of photography helps the photographer see the world more truthfully even as it lies to the viewer.
— Wed Mar 31 2010 22:15 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2885: | Bearing children is the ultimate Frankenstein experiment. Let's mix up our genes, throw the dice and see what happens.
— Wed Mar 31 2010 22:24 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2886: | It is the nature of youth to think you have all the time in the world and spend it that way.
— Thu Apr 01 2010 09:24 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2887: | Age doesn't make you old. What makes you old is getting trapped in your own investments.
— Thu Apr 01 2010 10:05 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2888: | "No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." ~ Nietzsche via @philo_quotes
— Thu Apr 01 2010 12:40 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2889: | There is no greater gastronomic and coronary hazard than "All You Can Eat".
— Fri Apr 02 2010 12:54 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2890: | New Photo Album: Women's March and Rally, Downtown Seattle http://bit.ly/d0l57I
— Fri Apr 02 2010 14:32 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2891: | Kilroy Cafe #69: "Truth and the Art of Photography" http://bit.ly/dytVN6 - The world is full of lousy photos.
— Fri Apr 02 2010 14:33 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2892: | New photo albums from Canada: Ottawa http://bit.ly/baYpeS & Thousand Islands http://bit.ly/9Ms79M
— Fri Apr 02 2010 14:42 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2893: | Fruit is a plant's seed distribution strategy. Animals eat the fruit and shit the seeds. So how, then, do we explain the avocado?
— Fri Apr 02 2010 16:24 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2894: | Photos don't lie? Wrong! They usually contain distortions of space and time, conveying different feelings than were present when taken.
— Fri Apr 02 2010 17:05 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2895: | That "Til Death Do You Part" shit is really scary! Shouldn't it be illegal on the grounds that no one can see that far ahead?
— Sat Apr 03 2010 01:45 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2896: | Let us honor the Ancient Ones, our elders who came upon this land and built great monuments to the gods of Fast Food and Retail Sales.
— Sat Apr 03 2010 13:13 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2897: | Soylent Green is... animals! Abused and tortured animals, although we don't have to see their suffering because we buy them in packages.
— Sat Apr 03 2010 13:50 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2898: | Speaking "Popular Culture" requires knowing the news stories and entertainment of the day, but not in any great detail. No need to watch!
— Sat Apr 03 2010 14:11 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2899: | Money is the greatest enabler of dysfunction. Too much of it tends to fund your addictions and isolate you from the effects of your actions.
— Sat Apr 03 2010 14:24 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2900: | Experts say listening to what experts say can totally screw up your life. Use your own brain and figure it out yourself!
— Sat Apr 03 2010 18:26 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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