#ed

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#caused #discipline #embarrassment #honor #i

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#bad #bad idea #enterprise #free #free enterprise

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. ↗

— Thomas Reed

#delusions #evils #greatest #hope #legislation

Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither. ↗

— Jack Reed

#administration #committed #doing #fund #having

I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed! ↗

— Jerry Reed

#bed #everyday #eyes #god #grateful

I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.' ↗

— Jerry Reed

#could #gibson #i #like #mel

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#airs #also #because #beloved #car

I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities. ↗

— Lou Reed

#cans #caused #cities #crowd #goes

I built my marriage brick by brick. And I destroyed it blanket by blanket.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult. ↗

— Hippocrates

#art