#lease

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power. ↗

— Sun Ra

#beethoven #had #money #please #power

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one. ↗

— Jean Racine

#art #created #first #move #other

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#athens #bad #beforehand #deal #everybody

To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#country #earlier #focus #get #getting

I am pleased to launch the Friends of Thailand Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#caucus #friends #house #i #i am

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#anything #approaching #brute #brute force #citizens

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#air pollution #approximately #emission #enforcing #go

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#begins #bombing #fellow #fellow americans #five

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#ago #any #ask #me #please

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#babies #car #else #everybody #everybody else