Tara Westover Quotes

I think if you're going to abuse someone, you really have to convince them of two things. First, you have to normalise what you're doing, convince them that it's not that bad. And the second thing is to convince them that they deserve it in some way.

Tara Westover

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ThinkSomeoneDoingYouBadWay

Ripping on Republicans is not that fun for us only because everyone else does it.

Matt Stone

FunEveryoneUsBecauseOnlyElse

One of my favorite directors is Clint Eastwood, and I hear about the way he works, and I think I'm of a similar style. Very few takes - you get what you take, and you move on. It's very much a job and work.

Jeff Nichols

WorkStyleJobThinkYouMove On

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

Andy Murray

ChangeTimeI AmStubbornSameOpen

I'll always have a relationship with Scotland.

John Tiffany

RelationshipAlwaysScotland

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

Robert Browning

SleepFightCloudsForwardBetter

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.

Mike Davidson

SportsPeopleCareHospitalGet

I moved to Los Angeles. My parents were not on board with that, and so I had to get a lot of different jobs. One of them was working for a man in Hollywood who had a weekly poker game.

Molly Bloom

ManParentsGameLos AngelesWeekly

There's no statute of limitations on doing what's right.

Louie Gohmert

DoingRightLimitations

My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

Dick Van Dyke

GoodBusinessWifeMeProudWay

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Dev Hynes

GirlDaySongFeelYoungKind

Many Virginia Republicans would rather work with Democrats to assist the Kaine-Clinton-McAuliffe agenda than work with a conservative like me to block Obamacare's failed legacy in Virginia.

Corey Stewart

WorkMeLegacyConservativeWould

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

Brian Bosworth

MorningFootballYouWallAthlete

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