Alissa Quart Quotes

While more people are working later in life because of happy things like longer life expectancy, they are also doing so because of very sad things, like a lack of Social Security benefits or retirement plans.

Alissa Quart

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LifeSadHappyPeopleRetirement

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

Jim Caviezel

SufferingLookAnythingUndergo

The Elian events were shocking to Cubans because we were the fair-haired boys of the Cold War. The problem is, the Cold War ended.

Joe Garcia

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People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.

Jet Li

GoodPeopleMeActionGrowYou

You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Joel Osteen

NatureGodMistakesYouInsideMay

Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.

John Travolta

AutismKnownLeastIllnesses

With journalism, films always have to be to do with some personal statement of your own. As a general rule, I resist that. In the States, a question that kept coming up was this: 'How can you, as a man, talk about three women?'

Stephen Daldry

WomenManYouJournalismPersonal

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

Trey Anastasio

WritingYouWantFinishEverything

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Milton Friedman

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I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

Davy Crockett

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There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a freezer, and that's just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I've had thrown for me.

Cobie Smulders

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One of the best things I've ever been told is that it's better for someone to tell you to slow down than to speed up.

Bobby Lashley

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If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

Peter Sarsgaard

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