#nfl

Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination. ↗

— Richard Reeves

#alive #even #ever #examination #father

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. ↗

— Robert Reich

#comprise #haven #inflation #median #percent

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there. ↗

— Rick Reilly

#back #come #get #getting #getting old

Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from. ↗

— Marc Ribot

#also #away #fact #in fact #influence

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#because #drummer #else #ever #every

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#basie #black #count #course #drummers

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#consider #drummer #ever #every #i

The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#blogging #changing #collect #collecting #communicate

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#compatible #conflict #early #early work #inevitably

I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population. ↗

— Jay Roach

#audience #better #consuming #each #film