#single

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#did #disturbing #everything #grave #greatly

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#day #discomfort #forced #habitually #hope

First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget. ↗

— John Kitzhaber

#care #costs #first #first of all #health

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#acquiring #element #experience #fundamentals #important

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#contribution #depend #everybody #everyone #good

It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#focus #hard #hold #long #single

When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York. ↗

— Joe Namath

#championship #club #guys #had #i

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#dead #fantasy #fiction #hard #i

You know, I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dude and rock and roll and this, that and the other. And there's enough information to support that, you know, I'm a single father, that, you know, has been a pretty standup guy in his community and pretty private about that stuff. But it's on both sides. ↗

— Kid Rock

#been #both #both sides #community #crazy

It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get. ↗

— Brande Roderick

#been #comfortable #fact #gay #get