Kim Brooks Quotes

In a country that provides no subsidized child care and no mandatory family leave, no assurance of flexibility in the workplace for parents, no universal preschool and minimal safety nets for vulnerable families, making it a crime to offer children independence in effect makes it a crime to be poor.

Kim Brooks

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FamilyChildrenChildParentsSafety

I'm unbelievably superstitious.

Jillian Michaels

SuperstitiousUnbelievably

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome K. Jerome

LifeLoveBeautifulBeginningYoung

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

Andrzej Wajda

GreatSchoolCreateHandBigFilm

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

Matthew Gray Gubler

MusicMeWorldCreatingMorePaper

How Americans restore trust may be an existential question for their country, then, but it's ultimately a practical one: What U.S. society needs to answer it in the coming years aren't lamentations but practical measures, especially among the emerging generations that will define America's future.

Stanley A. McChrystal

FutureTrustSocietyAmericaCountry

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

Robert Frost

ThinkingVotingAgreeing

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

Mary MacLane

GirlI AmBookReadingSheLived

I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.

Luis Gutierrez

SupportCongressFirstLatinoOnly

I don't aspire to write like Steve King. Sure, I admire his work, and I think he's a hell of a nice guy; we met shortly after my first Stoker win. I aspire to write like Jonathan Maberry.

Jonathan Maberry

WorkKingWinThinkHellNice

My friends would probably describe me as silly. And honest. And that I think about things a bit too much.

Jonathan Brandis

MeThinkFriendsSillyToo Much

My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit.

Dianne Reeves

MotherBornDetroitRaisedActually

My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we enjoyed reading it.

Debra Granik

ReadingPartnerRockAbandonment

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