Kim Brooks Quotes

A lot of my friends aren't parents. I find this culture of all-consuming motherhood so oppressive. Not that I don't like to talk about my kids, but if I'm socializing, I don't want to talk about Montessori versus Waldorf.

Kim Brooks

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Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.

Andrew Scott

SummerNeverWearEvenTrousers

Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun. I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.

MF Doom

TogetherWordsFunOutDifferent

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.

Alvar Aalto

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'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my pants, as they say, trying to understand how I, as a novelist, would work with story.

Sue Monk Kidd

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What I've said from the beginning is that I am going to try to help all the vulnerable populations in Afghanistan - and to a certain extent, that's the majority of Afghanistan.

Rula Ghani

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I wanted Lillian Hellman to be perfect because I wasn't perfect myself. I really wanted a mentor.

Rosemary Mahoney

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Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974.

Dianne Reeves

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Transparency doesn't mean much if the consumer doesn't understand what they're looking at.

Denise Morrison

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My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

Clint Eastwood

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Fidel's oppressive legacy will haunt the Cuban regime and our hemisphere forever.

Bob Menendez

LegacyWillForeverCubanOurHaunt

I feel like I'm neither a girl nor a boy. I don't feel like a man.

Ariel Pink

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I believe in having total clarity around our goals. I believe in creating these goals together as a group and making sure they're aligned with Bob Iger's goals for the Walt Disney Co. And more than anything, making sure people understand that they have a responsibility to one another.

Anne Sweeney

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