Regina King Quotes

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

Regina King

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LifeFamilyMarriageSonBestChild

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

Jennifer Lawrence

MeGrowing UpThinkLearnGrowing

I wasn't a rebel. It kind of clicked in my head, like, if I want to do this, I can go out and do it. Some kids, it clicks for them, and it doesn't work out. But thank God for me it did work out. I put in all those hard hours of work, and it has gotten me to where I am.

Robert Griffin III

WorkGodI AmMeThank GodRebel

I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!

Angel Olsen

WorkPeopleMeThoughtsSinging

In 1972, there was still a New York City law prohibiting women there from 'furnishing refreshments to the audience or spectators at any place of public amusement.' That's right: Until the law was repealed in 1977, it was technically illegal for women to work as popcorn vendors in Madison Square Garden.

Steve Rushin

WorkWomenNew YorkCityLawGarden

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Simone Weil

BeautyPromisesNeverAnythingGives

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Mason Cooley

SoulComfortMoreImmortalityThreat

Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.

Mary E. Pearson

TimeCuriousWorldDecisionsFirst

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

Lucien Bouchard

BetrayalMoreNeverExpressionKnown

Aldo is one guy. Barao is another one. We're friends, we're teammates, but it's a fight. Each one will defend his name.

Jose Aldo

FightNameFriendsTeammatesWill

Trump's Twitter flood of late-night mendacity is an unhindered celebration of fragile manhood, a ceaseless summons to the millions for affirmation, a proclamation to vulnerable men across the land that endless preening and stroking is a normal and imitable way of life.

Timothy D. Snyder

LifeMenWayLandAffirmationFlood

When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.

Rene Girard

FireWorldYouSingleGoingWhole

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Mark Strand

PoetryAmericanSayPersonalAlways

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