#rio

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ↗

— David Riesman

#big #capacity #chinese #concealment #humorous

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future. ↗

— Bob Riley

#budgets #children #choices #classrooms #difficult

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! ↗

— Pat Riley

#contribute #declaring #each #ego #hardest

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#because #desk #direct #directing #down

I am furious about everything. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#am #everything #furious #i #i am

I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#gone #i #live #live performances #months

I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble. ↗

— Alexandra Roach

#doing #fun #have fun #i #i think

I do love DVD and I've always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of work into them because there's so much design involved. And in this one, we thought a lot about it and what could go in. ↗

— Jay Roach

#always #austin #because #could #design

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#baby #described #ever #father #i

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#appeared #arrangement #arts #creative #culmination