Amy Bloom Quotes

Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.

Amy Bloom

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HappinessConfusedInterestingGet

I'm sure, to many people, my life is not that exciting, but to me every day is an adventure.

Angela Kinsey

LifeDayAdventurePeopleMeSure

Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.

Ann Coulter

LifeTimeProudMy LifeSometimes

My favorite animal on the Galapagos is the Galapagos Marine Iguana. The first rule of iguana-dom is that iguanas hate the water, yet somehow, these poor iguanas landed there and had to figure it out.

Michael Bastian

WaterHateAnimalPoorFirstOut

We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quickly, secure themselves when they arrive in a location, assess the needs of a given mission, and move to that mission.

Tommy Franks

MissionFlexibleNeedLocationMove

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Toni Cade Bambara

TechnologyReligionYouLivingAsk

There are many pop stars who are great performers - but there is no chart-topping pop star in history who could play guitar like Prince.

Tom Morello

StarsHistoryGreatGuitarPlayPop

I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.

Michael Nesmith

GrowBetterKnowSeeDefineGet

It's hard to have a career.

David Spade

CareerHard

When Ben and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'

Christine Taylor

WorkMeLongGoSaidWay

I watched my parents act as completely equal partners in their relationship, and as a son to a woman I respect immensely, I never thought of gender inequality as a child.

Brad Feld

SonRelationshipRespectWomanChild

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

Bob Newhart

SpeedLoseAccountantUpDelivery

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

Bob Feller

HeroNameYouBackGoSurvivor

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