Rumaan Alam Quotes

My husband and I adopted our children through a private agency, Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children. As a nonprofit organization, it relies on client fees as well as donor support to do its work.

Rumaan Alam

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The creative processes are so mysterious.

Jimmy Webb

CreativeMysteriousProcesses

I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn't think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them.

Joan Ganz Cooney

GoodChildrenStartThinkDoing

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.

John Green

MeFeelKnowNicePlacesWrite

Twine from trees and plants can make good floss!

Jenna Morasca

GoodPlantsTreesMake

You can't even imagine the feeling you get when someone tells you that you are about to lose your legs.

Amy Purdy

SomeoneYouLoseFeelingLegsGet

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

Stephen Covey

ThinkingSocialHabitsRootedSome

I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

Rosa Parks

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Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Mary Daly

PowerCourageRevolutionKey

Liberal idiocy surrounds us all. It threatens to destroy the values and lifestyles that millions of us cherish.

Mike Gallagher

ValuesCherishLiberalDestroyUs

I probably would like to do more than I do, because I love working, but I can't work more than I work because I have to do some facetime with the family, and the work that I do is just all-encompassing.

Michelle Pfeiffer

WorkFamilyLoveMoreWorkingJust

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

Mohamed ElBaradei

HopeForwardBackTableGoSaid

I believe marriages should be legally defined as between one man and one woman.

Lisa Murkowski

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