Solange Knowles Quotes

My parents constantly tried to talk me out of being an artist. They had gone through the whole journey with my sister and just wanted me to have a normal teenage life.

Solange Knowles

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LifeJourneyParentsMeSisterTalk

I could stifle my voice, or strip it. I know that I could, because we can do anything we put our minds to. I know that I could, but it feels very unnatural for me to strip my prose like that, in part because place is so important to me.

Jesmyn Ward

MeVoicePlaceKnowImportantMinds

Many of the patients in military and veterans hospitals require long stays, which can place a large financial hardship on families who don't live near the hospital, which is very common.

John Delaney

LiveFinancialLongPlaceVeterans

I can wrestle a little bit, but I'm not Chael Sonnen.

Michael Bisping

I CanLittleLittle BitWrestleBit

I remember telling Mom, 'I can't go to the Betty Ford Center. That's like going to the high school where your mom is the principal.' But maybe I could have gotten the family rate.

Steven Ford

FamilySchoolMomHigh SchoolGo

My parents broke up when I was six. Before, I was a very active, naughty child, but after my father left me, I stopped talking. I became very good at hiding my emotions. I felt so ashamed of telling others that I didn't have a father, because that was not common in the 1960s.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

GoodFatherChildParentsMeOthers

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

Michel Legrand

LifeFatherMotherHomeAloneDay

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

Martin Seligman

PositiveGoodHappinessPeopleMe

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

Jose Andres

TodayTomorrowTraditionYesterday

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

Deana Carter

RelationshipPastMeAttentionGuy

When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better.

Christopher Walken

GoodKeep GoingParentsMeBetter

I don't think 'Playboy' would have been successfully started on either coast.

Christie Hefner

ThinkStartedBeenWouldEither

I've been fortunate to be short my entire life. There's only one position I've ever had to play, and that's point guard. So I've always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.

Chris Paul

LifeLeaderJobShortYouPlay

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