Rumaan Alam Quotes

The culture looms much larger than you do as a parent, and one can hardly rely on the culture to impart the lesson that womanhood is valuable.

Rumaan Alam

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CultureParentYouLessonValuable

I love to collect guitars made in the 1950s. I like preserving and playing them.

Joe Bonamassa

Love1950sPlayingLikeMadeThem

When you start forcing things, that's when you get hurt.

John John Florence

StartHurtYouThingsForcingGet

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

Robert Smith

PeopleThinkBandOnlyCureGoth

Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.

Jeff Merkley

HeartHealthRainLovedFriends

I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.

Steve Fossett

SportsMeReachBalloonsDifferent

I remember working with a guy named Andrew Braccia at Yahoo, and Yahoo was the company that bought Flickr. Everyone on his team was hard working and reliable, did what they said they were going to do, on top of everything, and seemed to be operating at this level of productivity and effectiveness that I found difficult to manage to.

Stewart Butterfield

TeamRememberSaidDifficultTop

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

Mickey Spillane

PeopleKnowHollywoodUnderstandWho

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.

Don Winslow

1980sGuideKenya

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

Dolly Parton

FireWomanBurnFirstOutDays

Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom.

Dianne Reeves

FreedomRichGeniusTreasurePrice

I feel like I could carry a movie or a show, and I'll mess up here and there, and I'll learn from those things.

Constance Wu

FeelLearnMessUpCarryHere

With the fights I have lost, I always want another shot and think that I can beat them.

Chuck Liddell

ThinkI CanLostWantAlwaysBeat

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