#ago

They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair. ↗

— Sally Rand

#bring #business #cannon #chicago #could

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all? ↗

— Johannes Rau

#ago #asked #co-operative #composers #course

It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good. ↗

— Ruggiero Ricci

#also #difference #easier #good #had

In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, through the influence of 'grande cuisine,' has become a bit lighter. And we are beginning to discover the original flavors of our produce. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#become #beginning #bit #cooking #cuisine

What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop. ↗

— Kevin Rollins

#come #company #develop #enough #enough people

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#calculations #controlling #down #labs #large

Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#down #go #i #lot #made

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago. ↗

— Paul Rudd

#away #father #few #life #married

Let me tell you: the only way to get rid of dragons is to have one of your own. ↗

— Evgeny Shvarts

#dragon #fantasy #humor #life-lessons #play

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#deschooling-society #education #ivan-illich #pedagogic-philosophy #pedagogy