#selves

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#cultivation #gradually #import #lands #left

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't. ↗

— Little Richard

#express #expression #i #i think #like

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#religious #themselves #think #too #who

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#bored #get #god #i #knows

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days. ↗

— Chita Rivera

#found #hairdresser #i #nothing #ourselves

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves. ↗

— Jay Roach

#addiction #am #control #dysfunctional #feeling

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#i #i love #individuals #love #people

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#acting #because #boring #more #nothing

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#heroes #our #ourselves #own #rescue

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are. ↗

— Edwin A. Robinson

#knows #light #men #much #paint