Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

Chuck Palahniuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

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FaithImaginationPurposeTraining

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

Joan Jett

ParentsMeWorldAnythingWanted

If there's unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It's not driving out competition; it's not crowding out.

Jeremy Grantham

GoodGovernmentCompetitionHelpOut

For our team leotards, we get about ten to choose from to actually compete in at the Olympics.

McKayla Maroney

TeamChooseCompeteGetTenOur

Cancer affects everyone, and it's up to all of us to support the important research that can one day make a much sought-after cure a reality.

Angie Harmon

DaySupportResearchRealityOne Day

When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already had so much scar tissue from bypass operations that the surgeons had essentially run out of plumbing. There was nothing more to do, they said; her life was over at 65.

Michael Greger

LifeHomeHeartChildDieRun

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.

Tom Landry

PositiveCharacterHopeManEndSee

To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give a reality to one's dreams.

Roger Vivier

DreamsFeetRealityBeginWearGive

I was at a pretty rough school, and the only thing I was good at was art.

Roger Rees

GoodArtSchoolPrettyRoughOnly

As an athlete, success is not just about winning; it is about working hard and giving it all you have. I have always taken one match at a time and worked hard; when I succeeded, I worked further on the aspects of the game which worked for me; when I failed, I listed out my weaknesses and worked on them.

Rohan Bopanna

SuccessTimeMeWinningGameGiving

The most remote place I've been to was in Greenland. I remember setting out for a solo hike from a small cabin, itself several hours' boat ride from the nearest settlement.

Michelle Paver

RideSmallBoatRememberPlaceOut

You've got so much confidence if you start making big putts because you know you just need to hit the greens, and you've got yourself a good opportunity for the birdies.

Louis Oosthuizen

GoodConfidenceOpportunityYourself

When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and provide volumes of information, warnings and rewards.

Diane Ackerman

BridgeWorldInformationSaidDone

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