#rid

The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball. ↗

— Jim Evans

#best #cities #considered #florida #great

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#attorney #attorney general #challenged #criminal #general

So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#bipolar #chaotic #get #i #just

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. ↗

— Voltaire

#granted #i #lord #made #make

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#america #came #captain #captain america #easy

One thing led to another and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr. Rogers. He said if I was going to take care of his horses than I'd better learn how to ride. He was very kind to me. ↗

— Glenn Ford

#any #because #better #care #going

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#cambridge #inmates #like #love #mere

'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns. ↗

— Lea Thompson

#being #dawn #ever #fun #guns

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#bit #budget #experience #handling #people

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive