#cia

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet. ↗

— Carl Rakosi

#i #love #poet #social #social work

Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else. ↗

— Ted Rall

#association #because #cartoonists #confused #editorial

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#commercial #during #grave #grave threat #japan

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#discrimination #love #naturally #renunciation #through

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats. ↗

— Dee Dee Ramone

#days #down #early #especially #i

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It's not a job, it's a passion. When you become good at it, it's a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#cooking #dream #ever #financially #football

When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#appetite #before #chance #chef #cook

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#collecting #intends #man #master #masters

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it. ↗

— A. Philip Randolph

#cannot #destroy #every #expected #system

If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#been #came #charlie #family #got