Rebecca Traister Quotes

I think that technology - computers and smart phones and 24-hour availability - often leaves me, and others I know, feeling blank and depressed at the end of a day. I also believe that hyped expectations for raising children leaves many women and men feeling as if their days are a blur of carpools and play-groups and tutors.

Rebecca Traister

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I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

John Carpenter

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We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.

Andrea Riseborough

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There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all.

Max von Sydow

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I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Amy Winehouse

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I didn't realize the connection between the mullet and success. For sure, you have to have a little bit of hockey hair - a little bit of flow, as they say. A lot of guys have fun with their hockey hair, so I'll try to keep it a little long.

Sidney Crosby

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I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.

Mary Beard

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If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.

Joni Eareckson Tada

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I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

Denis O'Hare

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When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

Deborah Norville

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I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

Chaz Bono

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My private financial situation is such that I don't need to worry about my investments. I don't have much to invest.

Wolfgang Schauble

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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

William Shakespeare

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