#iona

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience. ↗

— Mike Royko

#conscience #elevate #hollywood #likes #national

People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#american life #because #cases #court #court cases

I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms. ↗

— Erno Rubik

#always #been #forms #geometry #i

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary. ↗

— Jerry Rubin

#everybody #everything #gun #had #label

No observational problem will not be solved by more data. ↗

— Vera Rubin

#more #observational #problem #solved #will

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. ↗

— Anton Rubinstein

#composer #composers #me #pianist #pianists

Two- to four-finger waves are commonly used between fast-moving vehicles, but the nicely executed single-finger wave is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. To me, it perfectly sums up the Minnesota character that I love so much. The finger wave from the steering wheel: when you get it right, you'll know you've arrived and you don't ever have to leave again if you don't want to. ↗

— Howard Mohr

#minnesota #regional #beauty

The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn't make it up, the Republican Party didn't make it up. It's in the Constitution. I think it's just as important as any of the other rights in our constitution. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#any #constitution #constitutional #constitutional right #i

We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#again #debt #discipline #down #employed

I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#any #because #comfortable #days #enough