#ted

There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#better way #complicated #dangerous #dangerously #facts

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private. ↗

— Amy Tan

#aesthetic #art #become #craft #first

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#am #i #i am #identity #interested

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. ↗

— Al Gore

#before #beings #change #climate #climate change

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts. ↗

— Al Gore

#based #decisions #facts #faith #good

The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going. ↗

— Al Gore

#before #cap #continental #disappearing #entire

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested. ↗

— Al Gore

#active role #campaign #empowers #individuals #internet

We are going to have the best educated American people in the world. ↗

— Al Gore

#american people #best #educated #going #people

I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do. ↗

— Lesley Gore

#i #just #kind #life #lived

It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened. ↗

— Tipper Gore

#annual #conference #family #government #had