Mark Sanford Quotes

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

Mark Sanford

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ChildrenParentsPoorSameMeans

I think, very often, we're addicted to procedurals, those good guy/bad guy shows, and the 'problem' with procedurals is they all follow the same formula: The bad guy does his thing, the good guy goes after him, and in most cases, the good guy figures out who did it and catches him.

Joe Morton

GoodThinkProblemBadFollowOut

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

John C. Maxwell

FailureAttitudeAltitudeYourAfter

That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.

Amy Adams

PeopleHandsI CanTalkAnything

Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

Stephen Chow

ChildSoccerTwoThingsInterested

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.

Shirley Chisholm

StereotypesOthersUsMustOnly

It's a gift that we get to do the work that we do to call ourselves artists.

Rodney Crowell

WorkGiftCallArtistsGet

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

Joschka Fischer

BalanceTomorrowWorldWillReal

FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it's almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

DayRelaxWorldSayingDoingYou

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

Ariel Gore

PositiveFamilyScienceTreeHappy

I love to simplify and edit the contents of just about anything, but women's closets hold particular appeal to me. I edit mine about four times a year and hold a yearly 'clothing swap' to encourage my girlfriends to do the same.

Autumn Reeser

LoveWomenMeYearSameAnything

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

William Shakespeare

WomenTimeMenManWorldStage

In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in novels.

Scarlett Thomas

MeThoughtQuestionsPhysicsBack

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