#go

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#bang #books #good #however #i

Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994. ↗

— Alberto Tomba

#country #cross #cross country #downstairs #enter

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did. ↗

— Darius Rucker

#african-american #anything #aspired #did #got

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet. ↗

— Paul Rudd

#everybody #first #generic #goldfish #great

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time. ↗

— Darius Rucker

#anything #back #ever #give #going

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#country #god #granted #kosovo #lot

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#book #going #happen #i #like

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#after #being #end #going #good

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#australian #been #believe #best #by the people