#esp

I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life. ↗

People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me. ↗

— Rihanna

#especially #expect #i #just #just because

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#certain point #i #i think #kinds #need

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#awareness #cultural #different #education #especially

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#birth #daughter #easy #go #had

In life you need either inspiration or desperation. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#either #inspiration #life #need #you

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California. ↗

— Alice Rivlin

#california #especially #gas #gas prices #going

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#got #order #respectable #respected

Whatever happens, take responsibility. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#responsibility #take #whatever

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest