#origin

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#cole porter #drawn #had #him #his

In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#actual #american #based #british #china

Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up. ↗

— Peter Tork

#before #benefit #charities #concerts #did

Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose. ↗

— Peter Tork

#original #produced #purpose #songs #thinly

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#context #cultural #distinctly #ethnic #gender

All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before. ↗

— George Weinberg

#how #love #love is #loved #many

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#duke ellington #ellington #famous #harmonic #original

I've got nothing very original to say myself. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#i #myself #nothing #original #say

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else. ↗

— August Wilson

#document #else #historical #i #me

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#colleagues #dismantled #harvard #i #mathematician