My parents climbed their way to the middle class.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
Recitation: by Male by Female
I always wanted to grow up in a house full of books, English books, and I wanted the sort of fireplaces that worked, overstuffed chairs, that whole kind of fantasy of a bookish New England life. So the library gave me that; for the hours that I was there, I was surrounded by that atmosphere that I craved in my life.
Jhumpa Lahiri
LifeMeLibraryGrowMy LifeHouse
Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.
Joan Kirner
ChangePowerDecisionPoliticsYou
It's great that Time is moving in the direction of validating those who, by choice or circumstance, will never be parents. But the point is not simply that society should stop judging those of us who don't have children. It's that society actually needs us. Children need us.
Meghan Daum
ChildrenGreatTimeParentsMoving
Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.
Robert Mapplethorpe
WallsFlowersWithoutHangSell
I would love to have my hair back and to be two inches taller - I am 5 ft. 8 in.
Stanley Tucci
LoveI AmHairBackTwoInches
Sugar was an issue in the '80s, so you would see low-sugar products; fat was an issue in the '90s, so you'd see low-fat products.
Michael Moss
FatYouSugarSeeProductsWould
Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.
Deepak Chopra
WorkHard WorkAmbitionWorldYou
I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.
David Thewlis
ListeningYouKnowHereBeatles
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
Arne Jacobsen
ArtArchitectureBuildingThen
The centerpiece of Obamanomics - raising taxes on high earners and investors and lowering them on the middle class - is attacked by free-marketers for penalizing economic success and possibly further stalling economic growth.
Nina Easton
SuccessGrowthClassTaxesHigh
I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.
Martin Freeman
PeopleBuyOtherReallyUnlessCDs
When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.
Kenneth Grahame
DressGrowMysteryBackDarkRat
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