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Rumaan Alam Quotes

This tension between ambition and parenthood, that's not a reckoning that many men face. There are plenty of men who say, 'Oh, I need to be there for my kids, and I can't do x or y professionally,' but for the most part, that's a struggle that belongs to women in society.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american

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Women Struggle Men Ambition Society

At the end of the day, I could go back to getting sixth or seventh place and being a mediocre skater, or I could be a champion. I want to be a champion.

Day Champion End Of The Day End Back

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Together Intelligence Me Perfect Go

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.

Science Book Story You Fiction Sort

I went to high school in Virginia Beach, Va., and we had these guys - they were surfers. They didn't like me, never talked to me. And if they didn't like you, they threw toothpicks at you. After I did a play, it was different. I found out I was pretty good at something.

Good Beach School Me High School

Matching your hat to your shoe to your bag, or your necklace to your earrings, has a tendency to look dated. Mixing up your accessories adds interest to an outfit, and can make you look much more modern and polished.

Hat Bag You Look Outfit Earrings

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

Music Parents Me Guitar Acting Five

Power draws you in; it's something we can gravitate toward.

Power You Something Gravitate Toward

It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.

Love Heart Soul People City Better

A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western culture. I had my first sewing machine when I was 9. I trained in fashion illustration when I was in school.

Culture Experience School Fashion

It's funny how when your kids get sick, they get even cuter when they have a stuffed nose and they mouth breathe.

Funny Sick Mouth Breathe Nose Get

The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning.

Winning You Way Right Critics Up

I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as well as defeat.

Bronte Campbell

Good Humble Victory Early Defeat

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