On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.
Kay Lenz
Recitation: by Male by Female
The biggest reason people don't do things is knowledge. Many people don't go to the gym because they don't know what the heck they're doing.
Jessie Pavelka
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I read Leisel Jones' book. She said she retired at 27 and said, 'Now what?' because swimming was the biggest part of her life. So for me, that's why I'm keeping up my studies on the side even if it's going to take a bit longer than normal, but at least I'll have it.
Jessica Fox
LifeMeSwimmingBookSaidWhy
Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.
Jerry Bruckheimer
MistakesThinkLearnYouLookBack
Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
Andrew Young
FutureFreedomChildrenHealthValue
I think the era of access journalism as we've known it is over.
Jeff Zucker
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In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity.
John Updike
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I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.
Mary Quant
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I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave.
Molly Parker
SmallSmall TownPlaceUnderstand
Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.'
Joko Beck
MeFactsNamePersonSaidSay
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
Plautus
BestWomanBrotherYouKnowOut
I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.
Serj Tankian
TruthForwardComfortableOldDays
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
Timothy Noah
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