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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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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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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Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
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If you're a competitor, you want to win. That's enough to play for, simple as that.
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It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
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When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.
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My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
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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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I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.
