#now

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished. ↗

— Tommy Smothers

#finished #hard #know #talking #you

Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#fact #facts #get #ideology #innovative

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#becomes #burden #century #creative #creative process

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#formula #imagination #instantly #me #need

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#capable #first-rate #know #like #love

I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day. ↗

— Richard Lester

#about #assistant #because #day #director

Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton. ↗

— David Letterman

#changed #gay #guy #hilton #his

I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.' ↗

— Jared Leto

#different #i #i remember #i think #know

I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure. ↗

— Jared Leto

#classic #classic rock #concerts #cure #floyd

As you know now, Rush Limbaugh is the new face of the Republican Party, but they'll probably go with a different body. ↗

— David Letterman

#different #face #go #know #limbaugh