Jami Attenberg Quotes
Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them... but you can change your response to them.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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I don't know, I like the word sassy.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.
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My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that's so good at cooking under the same roof. It's all beans or spaghetti when I'm left to run it.
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No family is ever what it seems from the outside.
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
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Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them... but you can change your response to them.
