#flu

It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged influenza. ↗

— Richard Reeves

#country #earthquakes #horrors #hurricanes #influenza

Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination. ↗

— Richard Reeves

#alive #even #ever #examination #father

Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from. ↗

— Marc Ribot

#also #away #fact #in fact #influence

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#because #drummer #else #ever #every

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#basie #black #count #course #drummers

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#consider #drummer #ever #every #i

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern. ↗

— Mary Richards

#concern #could #dearest #experienced #feel

The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#blogging #changing #collect #collecting #communicate

I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population. ↗

— Jay Roach

#audience #better #consuming #each #film

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#become #child #else #even #exert