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The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes. ↗

— David Remnick

#beautiful #beauty #broadcaster #caravan #comes

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice. ↗

— Jules Renard

#dreadful #forget #injustice #makes #success

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed. ↗

— Ed Rendell

#barack obama #basic #brought #changed #ethical

The moment of change is the only poem. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#change #moment #only #poem

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#concentration #everything #language #our #poetry

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#arranger #because #becomes #chart #create

But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#changes #jesus #other #people #towards

We need to be adopted by God through Jesus - that was what happened to me, and that's what changed my life so that now, I can see that my career can be part of a calling. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#calling #career #changed #god #happened

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#completely #consequent #control #definition #difficulty

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#guitar #guitar playing #i #much #music