#ted

The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#bin #bombing #center #first #had

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#arrived #computer #during #first #first time

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#become #i #mathematician #physicist #wanted

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#because #connection #considered #demand #government

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#destroying #even #even now #i #life

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack. ↗

— Eminem

#changing #ever #hip-hop #pack #people

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.' ↗

— Eminem

#fame #go #had #haunted #house

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#al #chairman #disaster #extensively #find

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic. ↗

— Eminem

#authentic #felt #going #i #i always

It feels good to have your work respected again. ↗

— Eminem

#feels #good #respected #work #your