Constance Zimmer Quotes

I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing.

Constance Zimmer

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ChildrenBestThinkDoingYouKnow

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

John Darnielle

WritingSongGoUpAlongStuff

I grew up in rural Alabama, 50 miles from Montgomery, in a very loving, wonderful family: wonderful mother, wonderful father. We attended church; we went to Sunday school every Sunday.

John Lewis

FamilyFatherMotherSchoolChurch

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Andy Grove

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In writing on the page, you can be a bit elliptical, but on TV, you can't dance around stuff. You either show it, or you don't.

Michael Connelly

DanceWritingYouPageShowStuff

When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.

Steve Breen

FunnyDailyDayPeopleBetterLearn

I am so proud to call myself Canadian! Thank you, Canada, for welcoming me with open arms!

Sondra Radvanovsky

MyselfI AmMeProudThank YouYou

But the fact that we had to devalue by 40% at once means that Malawians are feeling the shock, the impact of that huge devaluation and particularly rural people, the poor are the ones that are going to be most affected. That is why there is the austerity plan.

Joyce Banda

PeopleImpactPlanFeelingWhyPoor

Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James Baldwin, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Bishop. All gay, of course, although I swear I didn't know that at the time. Yet all of them, it turned out, had had a parent who died during their childhood. Sexuality is nothing compared to that.

Colm Toibin

TimeChildhoodPeopleParentGay

When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!

Bob Mould

EyesPeopleWinningInterestingWhy

There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is... We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

Bobby Seale

HeartWhiteWrongPersonNothing

Republicans want to use Obamacare in the 2014 elections against Democrats who voted for it. They want to see it fail, even at the expense of people's health.

Bob Beckel

HealthPeopleWantSeeFailAgainst

As an undergraduate at Stanford, I started 'The Stanford Review,' which ended up being very engaged in the hot debates of the time: campus speech codes, questions about diversity on campus, all sorts of debates like that.

Peter Thiel

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