L. Todd Rose Quotes
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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I buy food and gasoline - that's it.
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In the dream life, you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.
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There was one week where I got mistaken for Hasan Minhaj, who is on 'The Daily Show;' Kunal Nayyar, who's on 'Big Bang Theory;' and Karan Soni of 'Ghostbusters.' This was one week.
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Tony Scott was one of the best directors I've ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death. He was a great guy with great energy. But this is a difficult business, and people's lives are sometimes difficult.
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Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.
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I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.
