#ian

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#intentions #justify #politicians #their #tool

He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#came #couple #couple times #gave #i

They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#brian #class #eight #first #first class

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted. ↗

— Kristin Kreuk

#insisted #kicked #lessons #many #mom

And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#grand #hard #i #i think #keyboard

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#drive #enough #got #guardian #i

Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit. ↗

— David Krumholtz

#charlie #conventional #him #little #little bit

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#changes #historian #itself #may #paradigms

So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services. ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#banking #companies #customer #far #financial

So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass. ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#business model #center #changed #consolidation #critical