Rumaan Alam Quotes

Parenting is love, sure, but it's as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity.

Rumaan Alam

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LoveParentingGivingVanityKind

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.

Jim Jarmusch

WorldGoOverUpVarietySaw

Often, entertainment goes deeper, in terms of ideas, than the newspapers.

Joel Grey

IdeasEntertainmentThanGoesDeeper

I log 250 days a year on the road. I need pants that are versatile, easy to clean, and dry in my hotel room if necessary.

Andrew Zimmern

RoadHotelYearEasyCleanNeed

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

HappinessTruthGreatManRoadSeek

I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

Meshell Ndegeocello

InformationWatchDocumentariesFilms

I'm not really a super-serious person. I guess in some ways I am, but I do like to have a lot of fun. I mean, one of my favorite places in the world is Disney World, so that'll tell you a little bit about me.

Stephanie Beatriz

I AmFunMeWorldYouPerson

We wanted it to be that you could go to the comic shop and read about the back story of 'Pacific Rim' and the drama inherent in it.

Travis Beacham

StoryYouBackDramaGoRead

Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police. A penal system unprecedented in world history has been born. Millions have been arrested and stripped of basic civil and human rights.

Michelle Alexander

EducationHistoryPoliceJobWorld

There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or protect itself. Normal citizens feel powerless, isolated and disturbed.

Michael Leunig

CultureSocietyFeelHelpProtect

One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right.

Joseph Bruchac

PatienceTimeWaitingAmericanRight

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

Courtney Barnett

LearningWritingGuitarStarted

Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

Kelly Rutherford

GirlChildrenFightingPennyGossip

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