#aw

Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#basis #child #comedy #comes #critical

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes. ↗

— David Remnick

#beautiful #beauty #broadcaster #caravan #comes

I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can. ↗

— Janet Reno

#agents #been #brightest #caring #hard

This isn't the best town for what we're doing. Too many other things to pull the crowds away. ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#best #crowds #doing #many #other

I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician. ↗

— Trent Reznor

#i #i think #just #musician #now

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. ↗

— Cecil Rhodes

#available #cheap #colonies #dumping #easily

Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from. ↗

— Marc Ribot

#also #away #fact #in fact #influence

It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn. ↗

— Buddy Rice

#car #cool #hang #lawn #out

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#any #ask #below #him #law

I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am. ↗

— Susan Rice

#aware #because #being #black #female