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Stephanie Coontz Quotes

Graduating from high school is certainly a good idea, but it's no longer much protection against poverty.

Stephanie Coontz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 31, 1944

Topics

Good School High School Poverty High

The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.

Day House Bank Pay Fields Sell

The charity that I work for is the Johnson Cancer Research Foundation at UCLA. I also do work with Stand Up To Cancer.

Work Research Stand Up Foundation Up

People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a child. I had two friends in elementary school. That was it. There was a clique of girls that were brutal to me. They pulled some very mean stuff. My two friends got me through it. Without them, I would have been all alone.

Angela Cartwright

Alone School Child People Me Think

I invested in Uber in 2011 when it was only in San Francisco.

San Francisco Uber Only Invested San

The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.

Words Night You Bed Go Diary

I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself.

Community Racism Yourself People You

Choosing an acoustic guitar for a live setting can be different from picking out one for recording. One doesn't always work for the other. The sonic properties can be vastly different.

Work Live Guitar Be Different Out

When I came to London in 1986, I was amazed at how prudish everyone was.

London Everyone I Came How Amazed

I ain't going to say everything I touch turns to gold or camouflage. I've got to work hard to keep what I've got. Nothing comes easy to me. It never has.

Work Me Work Hard Gold Easy Nothing

I have absolute faith in the correctness of my course.

Faith Course Absolute Correctness

I'm playing right now a role, and the role is called the 'Heavyweight Champion of the World.' And it takes all of the time. And I love this role, and it takes a lot of attention for me for the sport, and I just don't want to lose the title, so that's why I have to stay focused and not become an actor.

Wladimir Klitschko

Love Time Stay Focused Me Champion

Republicans remain silent because Trump is doing what they want - lowering taxes on the rich, eviscerating regulations, bulldozing the environment, and insisting that a woman's body is not her own.

Woman Rich Environment Doing Body

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