#vere

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. ↗

— Chris Rock

#hack #i #just #overrated #severely

I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#around #beatles #been #busy #discovered

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

#awaken #been #discovered #discovery #down

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! ↗

— Tony Robbins

#achieve #decade #how #mastered #most

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#decided #discovered #enjoyed #i #recently

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#consequence #country #democracy #distinct #general

When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#apprenticeship #aspirations #becoming #began #cooking

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#biggest #clever #cleverest #idiots #makes

Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#because #been #chicago #early #filmmaker

In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#angeles #approximately #beach #bridges #constant