Christina Baker Kline Quotes

Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.

Christina Baker Kline

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StrengthGreatWarPeopleLegacy

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

John Chrysostom

PrideRichesForbiddenThem

I feel better training in Brazil.

Anderson Silva

TrainingBetterFeelBrazilI Feel

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

Robert Kiyosaki

HistoryJobPeopleRetirementPlans

Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can come across as imperviousness and inflexibility. He wants to run the agenda; he doesn't want the agenda to run him. Once you become president, though, there's no way to predict what your crises will be.

Maureen Dowd

YouEmotionsWantRunWayBecome

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

John Thorn

LifeMeKnowNothingClassmates

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.

Amanda Hocking

HomeSchoolPeopleMeWritingGo

I would say the No. 1 problem with the Volcker Rule is it's too complicated, and people don't know how to interpret it.

Steve Mnuchin

PeopleProblemComplicatedKnowSay

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

Simon Travaglia

SmileYourselfEffortTakesAllowing

I personally think the best ideas for TV shows - at least comedies - are very low-fi ideas. High concepts often sell pitches in movies and TV, but, especially in TV when you're talking about hopefully a 100 or 150 episode proposition, those concepts just burn off, and then you're stuck with nothing.

Michael Schur

BestIdeasThinkTalkingYouBurn

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

Michael Johnson

GoldPressureCareerProfessional

You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you're okay with who you are or where you came from.

Mitski

RelationshipYouOkayRealizeWhere

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

Dolly Parton

MyselfPeopleI CanJust Because

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