#ai

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#anything #because #children #civil #closest

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#ethnic #game #maintain #must #national

I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#got #i #like #looking #music

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#anything #assuming #become #believing #disenchanted

However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#concept #couples #disgrace #eyes #had

Okay, listen. From what Shade said, Roag got toasted like a burnt marshmallow. He would have been nearly destroyed, right down to his junk." Wraith grinned. “Which is really fucking funny. ↗

— Larissa Ione

#funny

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#costs #debate #decide #decision #each

I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know. ↗

— Don Rickles

#come #days #films #get #got

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book. ↗

— Don Rickles

#book #i #myself #playing #roller

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#books #call #children #clue #containing