#rating

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#dare #embarrass #liberating #pretending #risk

I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#back #big #big shot #coasters #down

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#differences #feel #freaky #inspired #like

A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#chose #clear #diagnosis #frustrating #having

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cause #critic #demonstrate #demonstrating #every

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#armenia #armenian #celebrating #hearing #holidays

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#being #cannot #cooperating #either #fly

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are. ↗

— John Abizaid

#areas #border #conducting #correct #military

It's frustrating at times when you think you've earned a chance to play on the field and you're over there sitting on the bench. That's not the kind of player I am. I'm the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game. ↗

— Freddy Adu

#bench #chance #contribute #earned #every

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process. ↗

— Marc Almond

#fascinated #frustrating #i #idea #knew