Meghan Daum Quotes
What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.
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Most people don't know how to take compliments. That's the biggest problem in America - we're hesitant to give compliments and embarrassed at getting them.
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Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.
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When you're willing to be vulnerable, you can surprise yourself at how strong you can be.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.
