"For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about.
And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago."
And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago."
—President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling
(Source: barackobama)
"Some people get the wrong idea, you know. If you’re quiet and you’re just not the most gregarious person, that you’re like.. I don’t know, self-involved, rude possibly, frigid. I get that a lot from people who don’t know me, like online all you guys think I never smile, ever. It’s not true. I do smile sometimes."
— Kristen Stewart
(Source: b0mbasspussay)
"Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”. “Friendzone” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “no”."
—angels-and-angles (via avid)
"I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."
—Oscar Wilde.
(Source: hookahsmoke)
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“It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so.”
—Greta Christina
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(Source: freethoughtblogs.com)
"I don’t enjoy other people - it’s a secret a lot of people don’t know which is I don’t enjoy strangers or other people…most people."
—Amy Poehler (via rufustfirefly)
"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."
—L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (via knockturn)
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."
—George RR Martin.
(Source: adh)
"So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them."
—Sylvia Plath (via letsbegracious)
Jesse Eisenberg is fucking adorable.
“I’m not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I’m supposed to act the same way they act and I don’t know how.”
1 year ago on 26 January 2011
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via formerlyvaljeans-deactivated201 originally from eisencriss-deactivated20110831
