I was the first advertising person who people could identify with.
Jerry Della Femina
Recitation: by Male by Female
My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.
Ani DiFranco
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From the IRS standpoint, 15,000 new employees have to be added just to, you know, administer ObamaCare and look at the tax implications.
Jeff Fitzgerald
EmployeesYouLookTaxNewKnow
Portland doesn't read like a basketball town, unless you remember what the NBA was like before it exploded into the mainstream in the Eighties: back when cities like Seattle, Baltimore, and Philadelphia moved the needle.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
BasketballRememberYouBackSeattle
It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.
Mary Cheney
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I've got them in the can and I am looking for a label.
Michael Owen Bruce
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I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.
Dhanush
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
Doris Lessing
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I don't look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me... I'm looking at a connection to the human being where it's interesting.
Craig McCaw
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I've always wanted to play a coach in a movie, just to be the captain of anything in the pirate ship of my bathtub.
Brad Garrett
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The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.
Pliny the Elder
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My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.
Peter Guber
MeMomNightReadingYouConnection
To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.
Noam Chomsky
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