#kin

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe. ↗

— Jack Reed

#army #around #breaking #confront #crises

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star. ↗

— Jerry Reed

#get #i #kindling #old #pick

Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#bill clinton #clinton #every #i #i think

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#better #customers #doctrine #forgetting #got

I tried to give up drugs by drinking. ↗

— Lou Reed

#give #i #i tried #tried #up

I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#bored #child #fit #i #i always

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it. ↗

— Nick Rhodes

#afraid #almost #anesthesia #being #being afraid

I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#i #i want you #look #looking #me

Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#clubs #developed #had #here #i

I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that! ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#glad #good #hell #i #like