Rebecca Traister Quotes

'The End of Men' was an incendiary title, but the actual book was very sympathetic to men. It was very invested in a lot of the challenges men are facing with unemployment and the economy changing because of technology.

Rebecca Traister

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When I was younger, I could carry 270 around and run go routes, and it was no big deal.

Jimmy Graham

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I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power.

Joel Kinnaman

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It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

Jeffrey Kluger

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Do you agree with me that we can't afford four more years of Barack Obama?

Rob Portman

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I got real bored in '96. Wasn't nobody to fight. Nothing to look forward to. That's when I started playing basketball again. Had I not started playing basketball, my boxing career would have failed. But I went from a sport where nobody could touch me to another where I couldn't touch nobody.

Roy Jones Jr.

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The building blocks of discrimination tend to be similar wherever you find them.

Mary Beard

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We owe it to ourselves to keep healthy this marvelous world we've been given.

Lisa Murkowski

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I have always had the same philosophy throughout my career: work hard for your club, and if you get selected, it's because the hard work was seen by the head coach.

David Villa

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The thing is, I wasn't surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.

Annabella Sciorra

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl S. Buck

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When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.

Shia LaBeouf

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I respect people. For me to say 'hate' was a bad word, and I didn't mean to use it.

Tim Hardaway

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