#ld

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one. ↗

— Bao Dai

#country #emperor #enslaved #i #independent

My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk. ↗

— Dick Dale

#before #blisters #drums #even #fingers

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation. ↗

— Dick Dale

#eat #fish #million #over #parts

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders. ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#first #i #last #leaders #new

Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#agencies #alcohol #business #businesses #certain

I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#area #believe #chicago #child #describe

Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency. ↗

— Tom Daley

#both #champion #confidence #consistency #diving

Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year. ↗

— Tom Daley

#gold #most #obviously #olympic #olympic gold

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#i #never #one thing #outrageous #the one thing

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#baseball #batting #call #cards #could