#ok

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable. ↗

— Fred Upton

#arbitrary #based #both #bulbs #catchy

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music. ↗

— Keith Urban

#country #country music #genuine #heart #i

Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. ↗

— Steve Vai

#believed #chances #cultivated #deals #difficult

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens. ↗

— Ville Valo

#aspects #back #being #bit #colored

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#am #give #hope #i #i am

I've given up looking for a boyfriend. That's not to say I won't be interested if the right guy comes along. But I'm not in a hurry. ↗

— Emily VanCamp

#boyfriend #comes #given #guy #hurry

I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#camera #control #during #films #i

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#awards #because #buyers #comic #comics

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#characters #drive #enough #far #full

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#dash #general #general public #like #look