#ren

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#businessperson #effort #generally #i #jobs

Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us. ↗

— Goran Ivanisevic

#always #croatia #enough #ensure #growing

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#already #apprenticeship #autobiographical #been #experimental

You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#both #both sides #falling #inherent #into

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. ↗

— LL Cool J

#am #different #different things #enjoy #i

I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade. ↗

— Wolfman Jack

#become #enough #i #lasted #long

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#american #current #exposed #format #fraud

You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and televisors, but are not. No,no it's not books at all you're looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type or receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Of course you couldn't know this, of course you still can't understand what i mean when i say all this. You are intuitively right, that's what counts. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#fahrenheit- #family

I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#children #helped #i #kids #leukemia

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#because #finished #i #interested #invention