#cho

And I remember as a second or third grader having some autonomy to go to the store if I felt like it, walk home, take my time, kick the can. We were on our own schedule after school, so that was cool. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#autonomy #cool #felt #go #having

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#avenue #capitol #capitol hill #down #first

I guess you just feel like there's a whole story that's not being told in movies. You're only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman's side, may be completely different. ↗

— Heather Graham

#completely #different #feel #guess #guy

I'd like to think I could do something great - a performance like Meryl Streep's in 'Sophie's Choice' - at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to be great. ↗

— Heather Graham

#could #great #i #life #like

My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff. ↗

— Lauren Graham

#had #i #little #lived #london

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#change #chose #hope #leadership #obama

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#candid #choices #costs #make #must

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#ball game #baseball #baseball game #because #emotional

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#certain #dentist #drill #ears #going

Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#between #capable #children #doing #even