#ow

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. ↗

— Eric Liu

#apple #arresting #because #called #china

Again, I don't hold it against somebody if they don't know who I am - I don't know who a lot of people are. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#against #am #hold #i #i am

I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know? ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#because #cliche #day #goal #i

You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#ask #know #lou #mary #person

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. ↗

— John Locke

#every man #himself #his #man #nobody

So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life. ↗

— Blake Lively

#cool #hal #her #hero #jordan

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#come #curiosity #else #getting #involves

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#book #characters #contributed #conventional #different

Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#country #deep #deep down #down #feeling

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#country #during #empty #family #few