Barack Obama Quotes
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.Barack Obama
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
Karan Johar -
All men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe -
In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Octavio Paz -
I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
Kate Williams -
The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
Valentino Rossi
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To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.
Katey Sagal -
I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.
Tao Lin -
I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
Naveen Jain -
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
H. P. Lovecraft -
My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
Vince Cable -
Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
Gavin Newsom
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I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
Walter Hill -
My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
Kate Atkinson -
Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
Kanye West -
Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
Mahesh Babu -
A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
Abraham Polonsky -
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.
Haile Gebrselassie -
Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.
Janet Street-Porter -
One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.
David Morrell -
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
Lisa Ling -
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
Barack Obama