#ives

Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#countries #country #government #liberals #like

Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#around #believing #change #changes #end

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#get #good #great #head #holding

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place. ↗

— Meat Loaf

#better #better place #came #fields #gospel

One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that. ↗

— Gary Locke

#ask #books #campaigns #change #game

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#case #every #fool #full #gives

I always find myself stopping to write down ideas of things I'd like to make from computer hardware items to things new moms need - inventions to share with others to make their lives more fun or interesting or easy. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#computer #down #easy #find #fun

I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers. ↗

— Mike Lookinland

#child #child actors #different #everyone #functions

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#consciously #contemporaries #epoch #his #individual

Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#always #back #been #big #charities