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Barack Obama on Mitt Romney’s concession speech:

That’s the kind of poorly thought-through statement that led him to have to drop out.

source.

“To me, a moderate in America is someone who recognizes the validity of liberal ideas but still doesn’t want to pay taxes.”

–Shane Ryan

Three years before he died is the point where I knew… I remember the conversation. I remember his inability to speak coherently. I remember realizing he had gone too far. He had consumed too much. It felt like the person I loved wasn’t home anymore. And the filter that normally exists between the soul and the rest of the world was so mangled…. I knew it, and it hit me hard. That was the day when I cried and cried and cried and cried and was inconsolable.

–Jon Brion, talking about how he reacted to the death of Elliott Smith. Excerpted from Autumn de Wilde’s Elliott Smith. Buy it.

“The best revenge is living well.”

–Jerry Seinfeld, The Revenge

“I couldn’t have done it without my players.”

–Casey Stengel, on winning the 1958 World Series.

“Time is a game only children play well.”

–The Silver Jews, How Can I Love You? (If You Won’t Lie Down)