#ban

We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#came #carrying #day #distributing #few

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#band #borrow #boy #card #father

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character. ↗

— Tilda Swinton

#always #character #i #i always #i think

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not. ↗

— Herbert Bayard Swope

#day #each #give #hell #newspaper

We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#about #choice #choose #credit #credit rating

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky. ↗

— Judith Rossner

#book #first #five #housewife #husband

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#anybody #anywhere #bands #classical #david

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#above #action #appeal #ask #bear

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#crisis #cuban #cuban missile crisis #did #during

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#legend #lot #minds #own #rock