Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes

I've never felt like I was in my mother's shadow. If anything, I felt like I was in her embrace.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers.

Michael Dirda

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So they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. Nothing. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.

Steve Sabol

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My original business plan? To work hard, get 300 clients in the Rochester area, and live happily ever after.

Tom Golisano

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As a kid, falling was embarrassing. As I got older, I got used to falling and picking myself back up. There's not a sense of failure. It's of disappointment. You train so hard to not make mistakes. When you do, you're learning from that. How do I improve? How do I get better for the next time? Through every failure, there's something to be learned.

Michelle Kwan

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All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I'm human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don't see the background.

Missy Elliott

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There is a life after being at the pinnacle of your beauty. Plenty of life and fun.

Diana Rigg

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Hollywood's just not funny.

Chris Rock

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My mother turned 40 in 1973. So in 1970 - when 'The Female Eunuch' came out and Ms. magazine was founded - my mom was 37 with two children, and she was just that little bit too old, and the circumstances of her life were set up in a certain way that for her to fulfill her ambitions and dreams, she would have had to break with the family.

Claire Messud

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I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

Chuck Eddy

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I once took a date whitewater rafting and brought my entire band/crew along.

Brett Eldredge

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Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.

Anthony Goldbloom

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I'm an asthmatic. I have to be on that treadmill singing to get my lungs right.

Pink

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