Karolyn Grimes Quotes

My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.

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• My family background was deeply Christian.

  

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• I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.

  

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• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  

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• America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

  

  Paris Hilton
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• The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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• My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.

  

  Rachel Tucker
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• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.

  

  Yuna
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• I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

  

  Gaston Lachaise
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• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  

  Vince Cable
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• Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
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• A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
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• Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

  

  Karl Malone
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• I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

  

  Lake Bell
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• Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

  

  Jackie Speier
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• I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have.

  

  Jeanne Phillips
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• My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
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• A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

  

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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• Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

  

  Lee Iacocca
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• As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

  

  Mark Haddon
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• My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Family
  • She
  • Woman