#ted

I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me. ↗

— Joseph Stefano

#hated #his #hitch #i #insisted

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#created #granted #must #popular #taken

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.' ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#created #fact #generation #hey #i

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#cultivate #cultivated #taste

I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#debated #gone #i #man #most

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#book #direct #forced #i #movies

I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice. ↗

— Bob Corker

#ice #picking #started #trash #up

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#chambers #deposited #detectors #different #distinguish

I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#around #beginning #come #comedy #did

By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs. ↗

— John Cornyn

#any #broccoli #care costs #constitutionally #contributed