#my

People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#amy #because #catch #different #eventually

My running was very simple; it was out of myself. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#out #running #simple #very

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#created #danger #did #efforts #half

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#crisis #cuban #cuban missile crisis #did #during

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple. ↗

— Philip Roth

#army #clearly #even #glass #home

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#good #honest #i #myself #others

Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#family #his #i #name #nickname

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#blowing #here #i #made #my own

A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#academy awards #after #areas #awards #being

It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#also #because #downhill #enjoyed #ever