Graham Hill Less stuff, more happiness

I won't leave Iran

I decided to leave the school.

I fled Syria not to have Europe's money or financial benefits.

I will leave it to Shakespeare scholars to decipher what he had in mind.

My doctor told me to lay off the liquor so I have this uneasy impatient feeling.

And so after this happened, I decided it was a good time to turn my back on this work.

I leave here today with a profound sense of optimism for the days ahead.

And she's very important in my life, because she's the one that told me to leave MIT and go to art school.

Nevertheless, I would like to leave just this one honest testimony I am dying, just as I lived, as a good Frenchman.

He said, When I leave office, I'm going to spend my time writing a book on why Jesus Christ rose again, and why it's so important to believe that.

If I were a Democrat, I would leave Palin to the mercies of the investigating bloggers.

Turn history into history the text explaining how we got here and stop treating it as an ever repeating present.

But I was thinking that since I plan to make a lifelong habit of coming back to TED, that maybe I could talk about that another time.

It should not be left to gays alone to fight for gay rights, because we are talking about fundamental violations of justice, Attafuah said.

I return to the yard and go into the second office, which precedes the corridor to the solitary cells. I memorize it fully before going in.

Leave my family. Which he did. The time was one of the most painful experiences of life. My three decisions gave me a different path.

Nearly three years ago, I decided to leave my comfortable job as a World Bank senior economist in Washington and come back to my country of birth, Ethiopia, after nearly 30 years abroad.

And it was a story that was told with words and pictures, exactly what I do now for a living, and I sometimes let the words have the stage on their own, and sometimes I allowed the pictures to work on their own to tell the story.

I didn't quit the Media Lab I stepped down as chairman which was a kind of ridiculous title, but someone else has taken it on, and one of the things you can do as a professor, is you stay on as a professor.

When I call you and leave a message on your voicemail, I hear you saying, Leave a message, and then I get these 15 seconds of frickin' instructions, like we haven't had answering machines for 45 years!

Just in case, I don't want to leave the men out I am one, after all I have really bad news for all of you in this room, and for everyone listening and watching elsewhere You all have a universally fatal condition.

I will leave it to Shakespeare scholars to decipher what he had in mind. But for diplomats and historians, understanding the concept of ripeness is central to their jobs it refers to how ready a negotiation or conflict is to be resolved.

One of students wrote, If I were the President I would help poor people, I would not let anyone lives in poverty... I would provide water and electricity for villages in order to help rural people live a comfortable life like urban ones... I would establish peace between different countries and I would not let powerful countries attack weak ones.