#ted

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C. ↗

— Eric Liu

#around #articles #asked #black #black and white

The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#atm #before #characters #chinese #competed

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#mother #politics #specter #totally #uninterested

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#been #drove #english #field #history

I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin. ↗

— Bob Livingston

#bass #being #front #i #mandolin

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order. ↗

— Mark Lloyd

#against #because #build #business #committed

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#able #being #complicated #complicated things #famous

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#interested #interview #know #subject #them

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#banner #devotion #flag #give #i

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#fall #future #had #hopes #in the past