#stan

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

#country #i #stand #vote #want

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#conditions #how #new #perfectly #poetry

Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one. ↗

— Ralph Ransom

#constantly #created #goal #higher #improving

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#acting #afraid #audiences #being #change

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#city #disco #effect #enormous #exposed

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. ↗

— Phylicia Rashad

#about #actress #another #being #human

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#appropriate #cannot #church #civil #civil society

I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#area #back #because #better #chance

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it. ↗

— Lou Rawls

#even #good #good music #greatest #hear

I constantly looked for motherly protection. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#i #looked #protection