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Tawni O'Dell Quotes

My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

Tawni O'Dell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1964

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Experience Woman Man Growing Up More

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Jimmy Carter

Wisdom Government People Will Right

Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.

Jennifer Grant

Life Good Father Happiness Coffee

I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

Travis Scott

Artist Owl Everyone Understood Like

A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.'

Michael Sheen

Sorry Name America Need Bigger Lot

I won a lot of money in UFC. I earned that money. The money wasn't given to me as a present. I earned every dollar of it.

Mirko Cro Cop

Money Me Present Dollar Earned UFC

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

Jonathan Kozol

Live Children People White Line Who

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

Christopher Eccleston

Feel Easy You Tell Narrative Used

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

Christopher Reeve

Live Community Time Day Words Will

On '24,' you don't have time to emote and deal with stuff, because stuff just keeps happening. Every other minute, there's something crazy that's happening that's threatening this country.

Corey Hawkins

Time Crazy You Country Something

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Brian Tracy

Confidence Whatever Own Expect Our

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

William J. H. Boetcker

Men Help You Down Little Big

I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always far from the center of the Big Apple.

William Klein

New York Apple New Always Beat Big