Mitch Albom Quotes
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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I'm trying my best.
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I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
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Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
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The direction is clear: We are headed toward a separation from the Palestinians. We are headed toward the determination of a permanent border for the state of Israel. We will protect Jerusalem's unity. We will hold onto the main settlement blocs. But the borders we have in mind are not those Israel has today.
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What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.
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I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.
