Kim Brooks Quotes

I always knew my mother was different, different from the other mothers in the way she dressed, the way she spoke, but most obviously, the way she mothered. I remember a slumber party where, instead of a sleeping bag, she urged me to bring a small, inflatable mattress because the dust on the floor was liable to aggravate my allergies.

Kim Brooks

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I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.

Amy Schumer

FunnyRoadThinkYouRiseLiving

When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely.

Robert Zoellick

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My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see what happens.

Rosecrans Baldwin

VacationBookSpeakLanguageDown

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

Mary Douglas

Black And WhiteWorldStrongBlack

Our platform is self-service, so we enable people to host events themselves. The biggest events tend to be the free ones. We had 100,000 at a salsa congress in Mexico.

Julia Hartz

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The most dangerous thing for a branded product is low interest.

Dietrich Mateschitz

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Given how majestically slim she always was, it's a little odd to admit that I can remember bellowing that Whitney Houston was The Heavyweight Champion of the World! on the MTV News floor back in the '90s.

Chris Connelly

WorldChampionRememberBackI Can

Becoming a mother doesn't always change every aspect of your personality.

Anna Torv

ChangeMotherPersonalityAlways

I'm still learning how to be comfortable touring. I haven't found that balance yet.

Sharon Van Etten

LearningBalanceComfortableStill

There are a lot of similarities, even though we're in two different businesses: There's the Taylor Swift business and the Big Machine Label Group business, but there's a huge intersection there. When we're together, it's limitless.

Scott Borchetta

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A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

Norman Parkinson

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The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.

Janet Reno

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