#tin

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. ↗

— John Legend

#biographies #bit #booker #civil #civil rights

Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.' ↗

— John Legend

#after #audience #done #exactly #i

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting. ↗

— Fernand Leger

#axiom #dogma #general #must #painting

I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#doors #follow #i #i see #latin

I'm in the reporting part of journalism. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#journalism #part #reporting

I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#around #city #country #go #i

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#first #jokes #opinion #shouting #story

Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your . ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#decimal #just #like #use #you

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#exactly #figure #first #full-time #full-time job

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show. ↗

— Rachael Leigh

#get #i #just #out #show