#ted

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do. ↗

— Anna Sui

#become #chinese #designer #had #i

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point. ↗

— Anna Sui

#beyond #business #clothes #concerts #designing

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe. ↗

— Andy Summers

#i #i think #instrumental #like #play

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. ↗

— Andy Summers

#classical #classical guitar #college #come #guitar

I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out. ↗

— Susan Sullivan

#doing #enough #get #got #hard

I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created. ↗

— Andy Summers

#created #else #get #hands #head

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#accepted #basically #catch #caught #countries

Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#being #capital #companies #incorporated #indispensable

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#believes #character #enterprise #experience #great

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#comers #first #foundations #furthermore #gain