#old

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#bit #ears #father #found #had

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#any #anywhere #get #hold #idea

I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary. ↗

— John Legend

#cold #commentary #focus #football #football games

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing. ↗

— John Legend

#calling #cos #i #john #legend

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#bach #began #compose #fifteen #had

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#i #men #mostly #old #used

One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#active role #controlled #debate #everybody #more

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#conceiving #either #experience #fact #genuine

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#beautiful #being #being beautiful #breaking #down

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#i #me #old #other #reason