Khaled Hosseini Quotes

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

Khaled Hosseini

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LoveRelationshipChildrenAngerYou

We're at a point right now in our development in this country - setting the immigration issue aside - that you can't ignore the sheer population of us in metropolitan areas all across the country, of how significant Latino-ness is in the United States.

Jimmy Smits

ImmigrationIgnoreYouCountryNow

The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else.

Jeff Daniels

New YorkWaitingPeopleWorldDoing

From when I can remember, I wanted to be an actress. I am a die hard fan of dancing and would take my dad's clothes and my mom's clothes and dance in front of the mirror. I loved my dad's clothes, as they had a lot of glitter in them.

Shraddha Kapoor

MirrorDanceI AmMomLovedGlitter

When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our 'colorblind' society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure - the structure of racial caste. The entrance into this new caste system can be found at the prison gate.

Michelle Alexander

SocietyActionPrisonPoliticalLook

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

Lord Byron

LifeDogFriendWelcomePoorFirst

I never had an issue with gender.

Judy Sheindlin

GenderNeverIssueHad

I believe that if you make it harder to vote, then we should make it harder for you to get reelected.

Jason Kander

BelieveYouVoteI BelieveGetMake

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.

Jonah Peretti

LifeYouPersonTrueMoreWrite

I don't regard the fact that there's a disparity in test scores nearly as importantly as I do the need for diversity, because I know from long experience that test scores, though useful, are a very limited measure of things that matter in choosing students.

Derek Bok

ExperienceDiversityLongMeasure

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

Christian Bale

ActorNeverFilmThanHeShould

People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.

Christian Marclay

TimePeopleMeCareGivingCreate

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

Brandon Boyd

LifeMusicMeListeningRestWay

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