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I grew up watching my father make plates that featured penises as centerpieces. Pink, proud, and stiff, encircled by cerulean Greek key, Dad’s creations made me feel scared and small. I saw a private part of the man I could not measure up to. At six years old, I lived in a world shaded by his ceramic glazes. There was love and color, but anger, too, in the way he kneaded his clay, palms pounding the rich, wet earth into shapes of his choosing. ↗

— Royal Young

#ceramics #fame #fathers #sex #anger

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who? ↗

— Kathleen Parker

#higher #higher level #level #people #perform

Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too. ↗

— Vaughn Monroe

#appeals #broadcast #cake #dances #down

One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to. ↗

— Paul Parker

#forward #goals #item #look #planning

Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind. ↗

— Joe Montana

#any #because #behind #count #does

My many years of living have not made the actions of teenage boys any less enigmatic. ↗

— Avery Williams

#forever #humor #teenage-boys #humor

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same. ↗

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

#bit #changed #down #here #i

Do I mind losing? No, because losses and wins are just the bricks on the path to success. Both losing and winning are needed to find prosperity.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions. ↗

— Rick Moody

#books #dark #emotions #find #funny

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere. ↗

— Mario Monti

#budgetary #centralization #economic policies #i #i think