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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#barack #barack obama #forty #forty years #four

I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#america #audience #back #broken #ended

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night. ↗

— Peter Tork

#fun #monkees #much #night #play

Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year. ↗

— Mel Torme

#i #last #last year #made #money

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. ↗

— James Thurber

#appreciative #audience #cannot #chuckle #comedy

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one! ↗

— Brian Eno

#even #first #i #monotonous #more

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. ↗

— Epicurus

#because #cannot #easy #free #free life

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#books #buy #clothes #food #get

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#ceremony #changes #day #disagree #drill

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. ↗

— Evan Esar

#america #athlete #average #believes #earns