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By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in… — Bob Harper Copy Share Image
The atom bomb was no “great decision.” It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I love college football and I love pro football. This is how fair-weathered I am. I used to be a Giants fan,… — Chris Bauer Copy Share Image
There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a… — Les Dawson Copy Share Image
I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected —… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with… — Daniel Johnston Copy Share Image
I can't really blame a lot of young sisters and brothers who believe that education has anything to offer them. Because as… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
If you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
You're never in control. That - that is the greatest fallacy of the - you know, there's over 200 people that it… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it,"… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Although other animals cannot reason nor speak the way humans do, this does not give us the right to do with them… — Nathaniel Altman Copy Share Image
I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me,… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Leah: "That is easily the freakin’ grossest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Yuck. If there was anything in my stomach,… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
In one afternoon, my entire life shattered and then all of a sudden this great guy comes along like some mythical knight… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I've kind of gotten more timid. I used to be fearless - at a certain point I didn't care about what anybody… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
I also miss the support that I had of so many people. You know I'm a very Ma and Pa operation right… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
Television is much more complex, brain-challenging and involved than it used to be. It's almost impossible to watch a television show from… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I used to have a musical group with a girlfriend called The Thunderclouds. It was like a Beach Boys cover band. And… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, a study of nearly 700 women in California showed an increased risk of fetal death among babies… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
It's kind of depressing when you hear the anti-science rhetoric in America, but I think that people are just afraid of change,… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh,… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
I used to shake my head when I heard about mothers who were shocked - shocked! - when their kids came out.… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
I've always loved the seaside and I used to be a fairly keen surfer, but it's a solitary activity so when my… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image