Alice Dreger Quotes

You want a child who never makes you anything but proud? Please. Don't bother taking on parenthood if you can't handle the fact that sometimes your child's identity won't be what you would have chosen. And if you want to prevent a child from ever suffering? Well, then don't have a child. No one is born into the world never to suffer.

Alice Dreger

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IdentityChildSufferingWorldProud

In the 1960s and into the '70s, everyone in their own way was trying to open up the musical horizon. There shouldn't be a wall that you're going toward and bouncing off.

Jimmy Page

HorizonTryingYouWallWayOpen

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

Jodi Picoult

ExperienceWritingOpinionThinkWhy

On stage, I find anger at the unfairness of the world easily.

Jessica Raine

AngerWorldFindStageUnfairness

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

Michael Chertoff

New YorkNewRiskFirstOutRank

I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.

Amandla Stenberg

LoveLiveWorldThinkPowerfulLose

James Blake is a real good friend of mine. He's real different than what you thinks. He's super turned up.

Travis Scott

GoodFriendYouRealUpDifferent

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.

Rocco Buttiglione

ReligionNewAtheistSoftLeft

As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior.

Douglas Rushkoff

PeopleBehaviorFastNeverFacebook

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

Dennis Bergkamp

TimeFootballYouCareerTrapped

My father is a very hardworking guy, and that's his focus in life, so I got a lot of the paternal attention that a boy wants and needs from my grandfather.

Donald Trump, Jr.

LifeFatherFocusAttentionBoyGuy

Each day when I'm walking with my dog through the damp forest, I'm thinking about the atmosphere, and it often works its way into my next scene somehow.

Chevy Stevens

DogDayThinkingWalkingForestWay

It's such a great city, visually. You can't get that kind of look in Canada that you can get in Boston: the old-brick historical buildings, the winding streets, the old but funky neighborhoods like Southie and Somerville. You can't get that elsewhere. It's a very unique place in that way.

Brad Anderson

GreatCityYouBuildingsLookPlace

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