#ric

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#banking #behaves #behavior #capitalism #corners

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#behind #bush #helping #important #kind

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#allegiance #american #country #either #else

Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people. ↗

— Stephen Root

#best #caricature #doing #else #general

Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was. ↗

— Stephen Root

#because #being #business #character #character actor

There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second. ↗

— David Rose

#already #designed #devices #graphics #handle

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#allow #america #blast #fair #flowers

Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible. ↗

— Michael Rosenbaum

#ever #head #i #more #opened

Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#century #could #george #human #human race