Beth Ditto Quotes

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

Beth Ditto

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LifeMyselfMeBabyMomMy Life

All of us that have teams want to pick the right people. I've thought a lot about that. In the NFL, we've got 13 scouts traveling the country. We're trying to pick 22 year-olds coming out of college who will be successful in the NFL. It's very hard to do. What I've learned is it's always character first.

Joe Gibbs

CharacterPeopleCollegeThought

I'm just asking for a fair shake. You see a lot of these guys, a lot of these other champions making what they're making. I'm not trying to take anything away from them, but I feel like I'm one of the more exciting fighters under contract in the UFC.

Max Holloway

FeelTryingYouChampionsMoreSee

I feel like Dr. Death.

Ann McKee

DeathFeelI Feel LikeLikeI Feel

My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.

Jean Fritz

MotherTeacherWordsSheAlways

I liked being able to speak to somebody and throw it back and forth, and they can't predict what you're going to say next.

MF Doom

SpeakYouBackSayPredictGoing

For me, history is always personal. And it's how your personal history interacts with the history of your time. I'm very attracted to characters who were cursed, as the Chinese say, to live in interesting times.

Tom Reiss

LiveHistoryTimeMeInteresting

My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and right.

Tom Brokaw

HopeMeStrongPoliticalDifferences

My dad owns a company that lends equipment to industrial projects. I've been obsessed with taking it over since I could talk. I'd follow him and repeat conversations about how many tons of cranes were arriving. He said it was a man's world, so I studied electrical engineering because it was related.

Ruchi Sanghvi

ManWorldEngineeringSaidTalkHim

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never know at the outset how the book will end, nor do I ever stick to my original plan.

Lisa Lutz

BookEndPlanKnowWillNever

Social safety-net spending is an important form of public funding that helps offset disparities in family resources for children.

Janet Yellen

FamilyChildrenImportantResources

As far as 'Trainspotting' changing my life, I think I've said before I probably squandered a few opportunities. But I'm fine with that because everything's fine.

Jonny Lee Miller

LifeOpportunitiesThinkMy LifeFar

People will always make comparisons.

Don DeLillo

PeopleWillAlwaysMakeComparisons

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