Ricki Lake Quotes

Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.

Ricki Lake

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WaitingMeDoctorFeelPushYou

I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.

John Corbett

LifeLivePeopleDinnerSmallWeek

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

Robert Mugabe

PeopleSome PeopleUsMeansSome

I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux. I'd rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don't wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.

Matthew McConaughey

GoodDayYouEvery DayGoNice

I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.

Angela Duckworth

AgeAmericanDataGritGoHand

I saw an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 'Fanny and Alexander' at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. The story is just legendary for us Danes, and it was really well done.

Sidse Babett Knudsen

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The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

Silvan Shalom

DecisionAnythingInfrastructureMake

A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.

Simon Hoggart

GodCommunityChildrenJobWife

Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.

Roberto Clemente

MeYouFindWillInsideOutside

I'm going to gut you like a fish.

Mike Tyson

FishYouGutGoingLike

The double chin's not good for the red carpet.

Missy Elliott

GoodRedRed CarpetDoubleCarpet

From December 2007 through June 2009, average federal employee salaries increased by 6.6 percent, while average private-sector salaries increased by 3.9 percent.

Jason Chaffetz

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I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

Jonathan Ames

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