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And then tragedy struck, a fire broke out plastic decorations were melting from the ceiling and toxic smoke filled the club.
It didn't look all that special from the outside, as I said, but when we walked inside, I was immediately struck by three things: First of all, it was pleasantly cool despite the oppressive heat outside.
But the thing that struck me about all of these different projects is that they really had to be built from scratch, down to the level of the electronics and the printed circuit boards and all the mechanisms all the way up to the software.
And I started to write down on these little note cards every time I heard something that struck a chord in me, pardon the pun, or something that I thought I could use, and pretty soon, my studio looked like this, kind of like a John Nash, "Beautiful Mind" vibe.
They heard it, they wanted to be a part of it, and all of a sudden they found themselves in possession of the technology to do so, not much unlike the way the Delta blues struck a chord with the Stones and the Beatles and Clapton, and they felt the need to co-opt that music for the tools of their day.
You know, I'm struck by how one of the implicit themes of TED is compassion, these very moving demonstrations we've just seen: HIV in Africa, President Clinton last night.
As a student of adversity, I've been struck over the years by how some people with major challenges seem to draw strength from them.
And I remember these TV images of the workers in hazmat suits, just walking through the site, and what struck me was how quiet and serene it was.
I'm struck as a teacher that we tell students to critically question every text they read, every website they visit, except dictionaries, which we tend to treat as un-authored, as if they came from nowhere to give us answers about what words really mean.
But I came from a modest immigrant family where my idea of luxury was having a pork tongue and jelly sandwich in my school lunchbox, so the thought of spending my whole life sitting around in armchairs just thinking ... Well, that struck me as the height of extravagance and frivolity.
And so a bomber struck their 2008 eighth world performing arts festival in Lahore, producing rain of glass that fell into the venue injuring nine people, and later that same night, the Peerzadas made a very difficult decision: they announced that their festival would continue as planned the next day.
In that initial reunion, I was struck by an idea that I had very few photographs of myself as a young child.
And as we walked, I was struck that I had reverted to being the child even though I was now towering above my father.
We seem to have struck a nerve.
There, an overseer threw a two-pound weight at a fugitive enslaved person, missed, and struck Minty instead.
Take a look: 748 Haitian graduates by 2012, when cholera struck, nearly half working in the public health sector but one quarter unemployed, and 110 had left Haiti altogether.
Workers were coming back from their grueling day of work, and I struck a conversation with a Bangladeshi construction worker.
Just completely independent entity, completely random occurrence, and the image, when I saw it, it really struck me.
So what struck us was that these were communities that the people who lived there had built with their own hands, without a master plan and like a giant work in progress.
And that disparity struck me as this incredible intellectual and moral puzzle.
As a medical student, I was taking care of this 19-year-old who was biking back to his dorm when he got struck and hit, run over by an SUV.
"Pigeon's Progress" struck me as a catchy title.
At that moment, I was really struck by the power of technology to change lives for the better.
Aristophanes struck back two years later with a play called The Knights.
(Rainforest noises) In the summer of 2011, as a tourist, I visited the rainforests of Borneo for the very first time, and as you might imagine, it was the overwhelming sounds of the forest that struck me the most.
It struck me as quite unacceptable that in this modern time, just a few hundred meters away from a ranger station in a sanctuary, that in fact nobody could hear it when someone who has a chainsaw gets fired up.
In South Asia, if you enslave a poor person, you're at greater risk of being struck by lightning than ever being sent to jail for that crime.
So I am really struck by the notion in your career of the opposition you faced, that when you began thinking about exoplanets, there was extreme skepticism in the scientific community that they existed, and you proved them wrong.
FBI agents were told to find terrorists before they struck.
But in the 1970s, the energy crisis struck, and customers started thinking about how to save energy.
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