#right

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#attacked #culture #egypt #fact #feelings

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. ↗

— Steven Wright

#deja #deja vu #having #i #now

Why stick your neck out if you don't have to? If you're right nobody will remember and if you're wrong people will ask a lot of questions. ↗

— David Wu

#lot #neck #nobody #out #people

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#brightly #brilliant #burn #burns #end

You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#criticise #over #right #russia #you

It's extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#extraordinary #how #inventive #now #right

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#dependence #different #different meaning #different people #energy

I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#also #because #create #down #down the road

I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new show called 'Jump Cuts'! So I called them right away, and the producer started laughing and said, 'We sent that e-mail one minute ago - you're so fast!' ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#ago #away #called #came #central