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- Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
- My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at…
- The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.
- Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
- The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards…
- Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his…
- Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of…
- I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors…
- Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans,…
- Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by…
- The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the…
- Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
- An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
- Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to…
- The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up…
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong