#po

The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might. ↗

— Gary Ross

#gate #great #image #large #massive

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#being #calling #family #grew #i

I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds. ↗

— Aly Raisman

#awesome #best #blessed #both #brother

I'm focused now, definitely. I absolutely need to show everyone that I'm powerful and strong and can be graceful and artistic, too. ↗

— Aly Raisman

#artistic #definitely #everyone #focused #graceful

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#country #flows #group #interests #larger

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes. ↗

— Ted Rall

#conservative #frankly #fun #get #harder

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#confidence #create #cut #deficit #economic

I read a fan bulletin board once, and somebody said I had a face like a potato, so I never went back on there. ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

#board #face #fan #had #i

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet. ↗

— Carl Rakosi

#i #love #poet #social #social work

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare. ↗