I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
Alan Ball
Recitation: by Male by Female
During one period while I was in solitary, I memorized the names of all 335 of the men who were then prisoners of war in North Vietnam. I can still remember them.
John McCain
MenWarRememberI CanNamesStill
I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood, and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them, and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.
Jeff Sessions
GoodTimeMePlayBallUp
I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.
Stephen Dorff
TeenWantKindNormalJustJust Be
I learned a lot from Bruce Springsteen and David Chase.
Steven Van Zandt
ChaseLearnedLotBruce Springsteen
I am going to smash B.J. Flores to bits and be the first man stop him.
Tony Bellew
ManI AmStopFirstHimGoing
My parents gave up things for me when I was growing up.
Roberto Firmino
ParentsMeGrowing UpGrowingUp
From when I young, a lot of the things I grappled with, with instruments, was how large they were. When someone places a large guitar in your lap, it's hard - I'd learned how to play a guitar when I was a kid, but I never really felt like I was in control.
Lou Barlow
ControlGuitarSomeonePlayYoung
The don't-ask-don't-tell approach to plot and character that 'The Hurt Locker' relies on to set itself in motion doesn't offend me politically. It offends me as a storyteller.
Jonathan Dee
CharacterMeHurtMotionSetPlot
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.
Chinua Achebe
ThinkSomeoneArtistWayWrite
We have to think about the state of women in a more holistic way going forward. We can't be segregated by class and race as we have been. Because even the women at the top can do something about violence against women, right?
Chirlane McCray
WomenForwardThinkViolenceWay
That's where I'll get the love in my heart: from, the fact that little young guys can look at the obstacles that I had to go through to become a Hall of Famer and know it's not so bad when it comes to them trying to accomplish the same goal.
Allen Iverson
LoveHeartObstaclesLookBadGoal
Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.
Peter Thiel
TimePeopleWindowBuildCompany
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