#last

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does. ↗

— Dan Rather

#good #journalism #last #ratings

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#audition #best #carpentry #crush #cute

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career. ↗

— Amy Ray

#being #career #country #create #front

He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#along #course #diagnosed #died #disease

Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#against #american #appropriations #because #bill

For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

#bed #beneath #bread #five #i

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #gone

God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode. ↗

— Bob Riley

#began #came #christ #country #did

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#being #difficult #human #human being #last

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer. ↗

— Kelly Ripa

#being funny #funny #i #interesting #known