Laura van den Berg Quotes

A collection is, by my lights, a chance to build a universe, an overarching ecosystem. But it's common enough to encounter a hodgepodge instead, where flashes of brilliance are undercut by clunkers.

Laura van den Berg

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ChanceUniverseEnoughLightsBuild

I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.

Jill Scott

ChangeAmazingLovedBodyFeeling

I like playing in other projects.

Jesse Harris

PlayingLikeOtherProjects

It makes me very happy when I create goals or score goals myself, but the most important thing is that the team reaches its goal and plays positive football.

Mesut Ozil

PositiveGoalsMyselfFootballHappy

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Tony Campolo

LeadershipWomanBelieveProblems

1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen.

Tom Brokaw

WorldAmericanYearPersonYoung

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

Louis Adolphe Thiers

PoliticsSeriouslyNothingEverything

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Lucretius

ReligionEvilDeedsPotent

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Ludwig von Mises

GovernmentBadWorstEndureMankind

Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

GreatThoughtSkillsNeverTennis

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

Ciaran Hinds

MusicFeetIrishAlwaysOutGet

Anglers who see fish exceptionally well can fish successfully in less productive water than anglers who don't. Fishermen love equipment and are always looking for mechanical advantages, but there is nothing to compare with learning to see well; if you see well enough, you can walk out in the mud with no boat and catch fish.

Thomas McGuane

LoveLearningWaterWalkBoatFish

I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.

Tim McGraw

FamilyMountainPeopleYouRules

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