I grew up in D.C.
Corey Hawkins
Recitation: by Male by Female
I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do.
Melody Beattie
LifeMotherCareTake CareMy Life
If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.
John McEnroe
WorkWorldLookI CanWantWill
My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.
Ang Lee
MotherMeConflictEverythingHer
If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.
Rob Corddry
FunnyPeopleYouWillSecretLittle
Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope with an ageing and ever-increasing population, with growing pressure on resources, and with rising global temperatures. The risks and dangers need to be assessed and then confronted.
Martin Rees
HealthRisksPressureGrowingNeed
But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
Michael Stipe
PeopleThinkAmericanCountryReason
Most people who get into the business are social animals by nature, but do they have the financial abilities to manage a business? A great bar owner has both.
Jon Taffer
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Mount Carmel was a very monastic place. We lived in another time - an easier time, a better time. We didn't have running water or most modern conveniences. But in a lot of ways, it was a very satisfying life.
David Thibodeau
LifeTimeWaterBetterPlaceLived
Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.
Clare Balding
AttitudeChildFeelYouBadCrack
I hoped that being attracted to men might go away, but what I never ever hoped would go away were the feelings of femininity, and of softness and fragility, that could live inside of a boy. They were private, but they were mine.
Arca
LiveMenFeelingsGoBoyNever
It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.
Arthur Laffer
WorkExperienceMeTaxWillEconomy
I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.
Peter Thiel
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