Lucy Alibar Quotes

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

Lucy Alibar

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My dad has coached a long time, so there aren't too many conversations in my family that haven't centered around basketball.

Stan Van Gundy

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I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start.

Stjepan Mesic

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I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.

Sia

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We're all born into this world. Some are placed gently, others thrust into it, and still others abandoned.

Trudie Styler

WorldBornOthersAbandonedStill

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.

Trenton Lee Stewart

AdventureFindingWayAlwaysBig

Songs like 'Learn To Love Again' and 'Rochester' and some of the more gut-wrenching ones deal with the pain of the younger times of your life... trying to make sense of some the stuff we probably all went through.

Mat Kearney

LifeLovePainLearnTryingMore

I have known George W. Bush slightly since we were both in high school, and I studied him closely as governor. He is neither mean nor stupid. What we have here is a man shaped by three intertwining strands of Texas culture, combined with huge blinkers of class. The three Texas themes are religiosity, anti-intellectualism, and machismo.

Molly Ivins

CultureManSchoolStupidTexas

I sing and dance. That's my job.

Dick Van Dyke

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When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, 'Hey, guys, let's be women, put the two together - it's not either/or. Let's celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.'

Donna Karan

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Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Deborah Bull

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I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

Bobby Darin

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Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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