#yin

People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#become #door #funeral #get #god

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know? ↗

— Ron Reagan

#around #awful #floating #had #i

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#deeply #democracy #devised #dying #ever

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#get #good #harlem #law #laws

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix. ↗

— Noel Redding

#hendrix #i #now #people #playing

Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#come #else #everybody #everybody else #experience

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#age #day #living #stop #time

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin. ↗

— Noel Redding

#mandolin #nine #onto #playing #school

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#believed #could #get #here #i

I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life. ↗