Alan Jackson Quotes

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

Alan Jackson

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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

Ed Smith
- Up
- Think
- Growing
My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.

Haley Joel Osment
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- Time
- Home
About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.

W. Bruce Cameron
- Life
- Up
- Trying
I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

Barry Hannah
- Up
- Freedom
- Silence
The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

Famke Janssen
- Up
- Way
- Looking
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Camille Paglia
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- Mother
- Man