Alissa Quart Quotes

Economically anxious, many parents see their children's accomplishments as a sort of insurance against the financial challenges of old age; high-achieving kids, this logic goes, will become high-earning adults and therefore be better able to help Mom and Dad pay for the assisted-living facility in a few decades.

Alissa Quart

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Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

Jim Mattis

ChangeCountrySocial ChangeNever

Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.

Jodie Sweetin

BusinessChildhoodGrowing UpGrow

I'm probably a more intentional acoustic player than I am an electric player because of lack of influences. I just play acoustic to see what happens.

Joe Bonamassa

I AmPlayIntentionalMoreSeeJust

Freedom has no history.

Andrew Cohen

FreedomHistory

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

Stephen Breyer

IndependenceYouWantWayMean

Running gives me the confidence to be at my peak throughout the rest of my day.

Sterling K. Brown

ConfidenceDayMeRestPeakRunning

For me, disability is a physical experience, but it's also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word 'crip' is the one that best encapsulated all of that.

Stella Young

BestExperienceMeDisabilitySocial

I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.

Stonewall Jackson

I AmAlcoholEnemyMoreAfraidThan

I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous Cary Grant movies where he's a surgeon, and you never see him in the operating room.

Tom Wolfe

HateYouPersonMoviesNeverSee

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

Rosario Dawson

RelationshipAlwaysSideObviousOur

Like the producers of crops, airplanes, and books, producers of natural gas provide goods to meet the size of their available market. The larger the market, the more they can produce, and the more revenue they can obtain to cover their fixed costs and invest in future development.

Robert Zubrin

FutureMeetDevelopmentMoreSize

Chelsea is always hard to break into, but I believe in myself, and if I work hard, then hopefully things will go well.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

WorkMyselfWork HardBelieveGo

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