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Anna Quindlen Quotes

I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.

Anna Quindlen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 8, 1953

Topics

Brain Sunday News New Know Listen

Your child is never not your child. You can be 90 and your mother 120, but your mother is still worried about you.

Joan Rivers

Mother Child You Never Your Child

I think the idea of opening up for a massive band is always better than actually doing it, and having your name on the ticket means more than the actual set.

Jenny Lewis

Think Name Better Doing Opening Up

Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?

John Ensign

Life Learning Purpose Think Thinking

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

Jeff Bridges

Work Home Myself Him Who Takes

It's just like my dream to shoot things with no consequences.

Amanda Seyfried

Consequences Dream Things Shoot Just

I like looking at a future where we're expanding our creativity and brightening our lives. I believe that eventually we'll get to a point where we'll be able to live indefinitely through our technology.

Steve Aoki

Future Live Technology Creativity

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

Steven Pinker

Possibilities Violence Inequality

My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.

Tracy Pollan

Life Family Focus Happy Me My Life

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Man Moon Moral Living Concepts

I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified when they diagnosed me with cancer in 1994. I was terrified when my son used to drive too fast. But I do believe in the fact that fear is not an option, so I always try to face it and not be afraid.

Diane von Furstenberg

Fear Business Son Time Me Drive

I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.

Thomas Friedman

Fear Business Hope Game Think Lost

You put as much effort as you can when they're young into trying to teach them to be good people or make them the best they can be, and they're older now, my kids. I'm at that stage where I let them go, and you just hope that all that nurturing you did earlier on sticks, and you launched good people out there.

Rich Moore

Good Hope Best Effort People You