#cs

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. ↗

— Maya Lin

#anything #because #deliberately #did #eclipsed

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#aroused #compromise #done #i #interest

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#borders #challenges #creates #globalisation #instruments

That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#biggest #biggest thing #challenging #ever #magical

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#been #doing #everyday #everyday life #find

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff. ↗

— Laura Linney

#believe #communication #discipline #else #everything

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#become #conservatism #effort #exalt #fanatics

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else. ↗

— James Lipton

#being #criticize #critics #doing #done

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. ↗

— John Lithgow

#humor #infantile #senses #tend #wonderfully

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. ↗

— Eric Liu

#am #bad #balancing #big #campaigns