#ra

People have been turned away from hospitals simply because they have no insurance. People have been put out of hospitals because they have reached the lifetime caps. ↗

— Sheila Jackson Lee

#because #been #caps #hospitals #insurance

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley. ↗

— Spike Lee

#beginning #black #bob #bob marley #college

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#better #book #cliche #everyone #had

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing. ↗

— Fernand Leger

#anything #art #beautiful #does #dramatic

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#able #interact #need #single #sites

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#i #listen #melody #out #radio

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#sacrifice #this-side-of-paradise #freedom

It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic. ↗

— John Leeson

#comedy #end #era #fantastic #golden

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida. ↗

— Walter Legge

#disliked #english #i #liked #neither

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#all day #alone #already #behind #boring