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Growing up, I was raised by a single mother.

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• Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Question
  • Learning
  • Curiosity

• I'm way too famous and rich to be on a dating app, but if I get very desperate by the time I'm 60, I'll go on Tinder. Or I'll go on 'Millionaire Matchmaker'; I'll call Patti Stanger.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Dating

• Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.

  

  Umar
  • Work
  • Today
  • Achieve

• The entertainment business is such a strange, crazy perception business that you're either given way too much respect, like people saying, "You should be the head of the sitcom!" Or you're given no respect, where they're like, "You should audition to be the garbage man that lives four houses down."

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Men
  • House

• Before a fight between Riddick Bowe and Hector Gonzales: Generally when there's a lot of smoke . . . there's just a whole lot more smoke.

  

  George Foreman
  • Fighting
  • Justice
  • Whole

• Everything in large doses is gonna kill you. Even happiness.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Happiness
  • Dose

• I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Book
  • New York
  • Written

• Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • School
  • Fun
  • Food

• The greatest help you will ever have in this life is the Holy Ghost! Cultivate him as a friend and constant companion.

  

  Barbara W. Winder
  • Help
  • Friend
  • Holy Ghost

• Poetry's object is truth.

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Vocabulary

• He throws hard, he's got a good slider. We haven't seen him before, which is not good for us, historically.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Him
  • Before
  • Throws

• While we had other options, we didn't want to lose what's been a relationship since 1990, and we think they're doing an awfully good job.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Relationship
  • Options
  • Good Job

• With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.

  

  Rebecca Makkai
  • Always
  • Stories
  • Everything

• Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. There’s another essential reason why we must understand that addiction is an illness and not just bad behavior: We punish bad behavior. We treat illness.

  

  David Sheff
  • Reason
  • Understand
  • Behavior

• I was raised in a household where being gay was like, the most normal thing. My brother is gay, all of my best friends are gay. When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn't a big deal for my family.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Brother

• When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Standards
  • Raised

• I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Children
  • Comfortable
  • Raised

• Growing up, I was raised by a single mother.

  

  Winston Duke
  • Raised
  • Single Mother