I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.
Louise Brown
Recitation: by Male by Female
I could remember thinking when I met him, 'Wow, that's Andy Sanders from Houston. He's really good.' And he tells me he said, 'Wow, that's Jimmy Walker. He hits it really far.'
Jimmy Walker
GoodMeThinkingRememberSaidHim
We understand that conglomerates have no future.
Joe Kaeser
FutureUnderstandNo Future
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
Joan Baez
WomenBestMenTryingCryTry
To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, 'How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?' The honest answer is, I don't know.
Angela Duckworth
WorkScienceDayParentsMeGrit
The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.
John Sherman Cooper
ManWindowSeenTestsOnlyBullets
Anything you rely on can become a crutch. And disabled or not, when you rely on something, that is what will cripple you.
RJ Mitte
YouWillBecomeAnythingSomething
I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for 'Six Feet Under', last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.
Michelle Trachtenberg
DayDancePracticeFeetWeekClass
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
Michael Morpurgo
EducationFutureHopeChildrenBest
It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways.
Michael Leunig
ExperiencePresenceUnpredictable
Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
Loretta Young
DeterminationCareerResumeCourse
I wonder about guys like Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann and Mark Levin. They're on such a mission. I mean, I love Hannity and Levin to death, but on the radio they're insane. How can you keep that up?
Don Imus
LoveDeathMissionYouWonderMean
We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home - my parents, my grandparents and five uncles, my family, all of us - on White Oaks Street by Magnolia Street near the railroad. Those were hard times, but I loved living there.
Debbie Reynolds
FamilyHomeParentsLovedHouse
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