#on

I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#been #blame #done #i #take

On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#debut #duchess #gave #i #london

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#felt #glad #houses #i #mine

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#great things #homage #i #known #persons

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#i #life #lonely #many #must

It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#i #kind #mention #only #other

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#challenges #enjoys #far #his #loves

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #behaviour #beings #case #comes

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#accomplishment #based #culture #prowess #remarkable

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#about #adventure #always #america #american