#pre

I'm happy with the vote and the support. I'm very glad that it is so decisive. It will enable me to be a president for all of the people. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#enable #glad #happy #i #me

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#express #how #important #impossible #know

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#big #branches #bud #changing #drop

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#becoming #entertainment #first #first of all #great

I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#bobby #brother #brothers #by the time #christmas

If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#any #being #deny #i #notice

Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time. ↗

— Benjamin Hoff

#added #complex #complex system #confucianism #court

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#come #feel #home #i #i always

It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work. ↗

— Mike Honda

#amazing #equal #equal pay #fewer #into

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#challenge #even #interesting #makes #more