My dad has given me the best gift anyone has ever given me. He gave me wings to fly.
Adria Arjona
Recitation: by Male by Female
Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.
Joan Cusack
LifeParentsPeopleThinkYouGo
Early in my career, I didn't want to disappoint my colleagues, clients, or family. So I said yes to everything. This ended up raising my stress level and shortchanging everyone else - including myself - because I couldn't give anyone 100 percent of my time, nor could I pay close attention.
John Rampton
FamilyTimeMyselfStressColleagues
Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.
Steve Carell
I AmMeSaidNiceAnythingWho
When I taught a civil rights class at the University of Maryland Law School, I would do an exercise with my students. I'd write 'civil rights' on the board and ask them to tell me what immediately came to mind.
Tom Perez
SchoolMindMeLawExerciseClass
There's a process to everything. If you fast track or make shortcuts in any way, and you get too much of one thing, you're just out of balance.
Rose Namajunas
BalanceProcessYouFastToo Much
My mother was a very hard-working maid, and their stories are worth telling.
Judy Reyes
MotherWorthTellingStoriesMaid
My ultimate dream was just to be an auteur.
Dee Rees
DreamJustUltimate
There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.
Bruno Heller
WorldPlaceNetworkAvant-Garde
The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
Allan Sloan
GoodGreatFunMeEgoSatisfaction
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill
MoreBattlesGreaterGeneralHeWon
My brothers and sisters and I spoke in a language called Egg Latin. In the early '50s in Canada, this became a fad way of talking among certain people. It's based on the concept that in every syllable before the vowel and after the preceding constant you insert the word 'egg.' So, my name Phil would be 'Pegghil.'
Phil Hartman
PeopleNameLanguageTalkingYou
We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan.
Shaukat Aziz
WorldShipRepairNeedHousing
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