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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“And there’s a lot about what I want that I don’t understand and that I don’t expect a lover to understand. But I think we all live in our own version of the truth, and thus are prone to terrible miscommunications.”
— Juliette Le Gall, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Miscommunication, Love, Sex
“There's only one place that I wanna be, it's home with you.”
— Moose Blood, Cherry
Tagged: Love You, Cute Things To Say To Her
“She's not mine and she never will be. She's not mine and it fucking kills me. She won't look at me that way.”
— Moose Blood, Cherry
Tagged: Not Mine, Unrequited Love
“What you don't seem to understand about women in general is that we feel unsafe all the time. At class, at parties, job interviews, getting into an elevator, parking our cars, walking down the street at night... I don't need you to push me out of my comfort zone when I've never been inside one.”
— Audrey, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: Sexual Assault, How It Feels To Be A Woman, Safety, Comfort Zone
“If you want to persuade me that everything is going to be terrible, then we can talk ourselves into that. Or we can act.”
— Barack Obama, The Day After: Obama on His Legacy, Trump's Win and the Path Forward
Tagged: Cynicism, Action, Optimism
“One of the things that I think it's important for progressives to do when we're in a reflective mode after an election like this is, we can't have it both ways. We can't say, "Why aren't you reaching out to the folks who voted against us? And by the way, why aren't you maximizing getting 100 percent for the things that those of us, you know, who are already progressive and living on the coasts think should be done right away?" The point is that politics in a big, diverse country like this requires us to move the ball forward not in one long Hail Mary to the end zone, but to, you know, systemically make progress.”
— Barack Obama, The Day After: Obama on His Legacy, Trump's Win and the Path Forward
Tagged: Politcs, Partisanship, Compromise
“Twitter might still feel big for journalists who spend all day on the platform, and fully 59 percent of Twitter users do get news on the service, third after Reddit and Facebook. But only 16 percent of U.S. adults use Twitter in the first place, and only 9 percent of adults get news there. Compare that to Facebook, which is used by 67 percent of U.S. adults, with 44 percent of U.S. adults getting news there, according to Pew Research Center.”
— Lucia Moses, In the shadow of Facebook, Twitter loses traction with publishers
Tagged: Twitter, Social Media
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed, if you do read it, you’re misinformed.”
— Denzel Washington, Denzel Washington doesn’t see his new film ‘Fences’ as political
Tagged: Media, Misinformation
“Who gives a crap what I say anyway? My work speaks for me.’”
— Don Draper,
Tagged: Work, Being Silent, Under the Radar, Disappearing Man
“How do you go from eight years of a happy marriage to wanting to blow someone's head off?”
— Frances, The Big Bang Theory, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Marriage, Divorce, People Change, Love Evolution