I grew up in a great family.
Brian McBride
Recitation: by Male by Female
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
John C. Maxwell
FailurePeoplePerceptionAchieving
Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.
Andrew Solomon
ParentingSportPerfectionists
I wouldn't say that 'Wowee Zowee' was a success. We probably had a chance, had I focused a little more, to capitalize on the attention the band got for 'Crooked Rain.'
Stephen Malkmus
SuccessRainChanceAttentionSay
Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.
Tommy Chong
FunnyMusiciansNeverUsedComedians
I still get a little nervous before performing. You don't want to forget a lyric; you don't want to make a mistake. I still get butterflies. You can try to judge an audience, but you can only really judge things by the applause.
Tony Bennett
MistakeJudgeYouForgetWantTry
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.
Tom Lehrer
JobWritingNowQuitFirstYears
The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.
Robin DiAngelo
EducationHumilityWhiteEngagement
I don't want to be the crazy woman who does it for years and years and years, and tries and fails and tries and fails and tries and fails, but I can swim from Cuba to Florida, and I will swim from Cuba to Florida.
Diana Nyad
WomanCrazyI CanWantWillCuba
There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.
Doris Humphrey
StrengthPowerUniqueEmotionsStir
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
Paulo Coelho
RiverYouFallingDrownStaying
I know America is the country that loved me most.
Renata Tebaldi
MeLovedAmericaCountryKnowMost
Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.
Mark Messier
EasyTransitionCaptainBeingWell
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