#rio

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#free speech #our #penalty #period #poems

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#enjoy #error #every #every day #filled

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#attacks #bad #been #before #business

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#i #made #moved #ontario #professor

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#between #differences #human #learned #much

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#always #country #dying #killing #never

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#being #beneficent #entered #freed #introduction

I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head. ↗

— Graham Russell

#characters #couple #days #everything #fall

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#acting #baseball #i #really #serious

I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them. ↗

— Richard Russo

#book #heartbreaking #hilarious #i #i think