Gail Sheehy Quotes
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.
Quotes to Explore
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off.
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'Moving Pictures' still makes me get into a groove; I love the way it feels. But I'm not nostalgic for old times. I'd love to have that hair again and be 40 pounds lighter, but it's a tradeoff.
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When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.
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I want a Supreme Court that understands because you're wealthy and you can give more money to something doesn't mean you have any more rights or should have any more rights than anybody else.
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Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.
