Mitch Albom Quotes
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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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Jerry Rice had won two Super Bowls already by the time he got to his ninth year in the league. That's what it's all about: winning that ring.
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The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
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Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.
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I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.
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I don't know about you, but I love going on trips - especially with my family.
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Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.
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If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.
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Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.
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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.
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The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
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Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
