Jill Soloway Quotes

I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'

Jill Soloway

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FamilyLoveParentsHusbandHouse

I was asked to speak at a bar association, because there's an upswing on college applications - in general and for Latinos - because of 'L.A. Law.' I went to a couple of functions, and I just felt an energy: It was, you're doing a good job, but do you realize how important it is?

Jimmy Smits

GoodJobCollegeLawEnergySpeak

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LifeExperienceWordsMy LifeGroup

I really didn't feel that my motion picture career was going the way I wanted it to go.

Joel Grey

PictureFeelCareerGoWayGoing

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Joel Osteen

FatherBestDeathFriendsDaddy

Obama came in really wanting to change things, but he hit a wall of corporate money, oil and coal money: when he tried to pass the Cap and Trade system of pharmaceutical money, when he tried to pass the Obamacare - which, of course, then got watered down into a much less effective, much less economical, program.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

ChangeMoneyDownWallOilCap

I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.

Angelina Jolie

DecisionRiskMoreDoubleComplex

I started with Tamil film, then Hindi. Now, I am also doing a Telugu film. The journey has been wonderful so far.

Amy Jackson

JourneyI AmDoingNowWonderful

Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.

Sugata Mitra

LearningThinkFeelTeachersSee

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.

Topher Grace

ForwardWantHorribleWouldReally

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

Tom Wilson

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Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

Roger von Oech

SuccessFailurePeopleThinkProcess

So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

Michelle Obama

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