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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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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Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.
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I was always torn between wanting whatever I pictured as a typical high school experience and that being just a part I wanted to play. I've written about this, but one of those typical high school experiences was drill team. Like, I just really wanted to wear a uniform and get on the bus and be part of this group. As an only child, the idea of blending in - and literally everyone being in sync and not standing out at all - felt like kind of a fun family thing.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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What is not cool is if we have a problem with an artist or if an artist has a problem with us, come to us directly. Talk to us. Don't start a Twitter war and all that kind of stuff. That's silly.
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This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.
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The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
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Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
