#ge

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#come #even #even now #hate #i

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#great things #homage #i #known #persons

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#i #life #lonely #many #must

My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#france #general #husband #somewhere

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#challenges #enjoys #far #his #loves

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#changed #edge #experience #explains #how

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#about #adventure #always #america #american

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#downloading #feels #guilty #ideology #intelligent

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#bit #danger #i #i do #just

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#because #change #complexity #crummy #expensive