#pent

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#cannot #committee #ever #fact #half

Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation. ↗

— Andrew Rannells

#being #coasts #conversation #even #gay

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#audition #best #carpentry #crush #cute

What I gave I have, what I spent I had, what I left I lost by not giving it. ↗

— Thomas Ravenscroft

#giving #had #i #left #lost

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. ↗

— Sam Rayburn

#barn #build #carpenter #down #good

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#believed #could #get #here #i

When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream. ↗

— Henry Reed

#account #asleep #awaken #cannot #dream

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#awkward #get #going #happen #i

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#american films #being #big #career #exciting

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now. ↗

— Sally Ride

#life #not talking #now #people #see