#fr

If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#doing #front #going #good #i

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#excel #front #incentive #working #you

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#because #either #failure #gets #success

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#dumb #dumb people #frustrated #i #i think

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#any #ask #fresh #ground #i

Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I. ↗

— Art Rooney

#guys #i #racetrack #were

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#allow #america #blast #fair #flowers

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#authority #four #freedom #human #human rights

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#exist #freedom #slavery #together

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#brain #bright #called #cultivate #cultivated