#pare

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#am #being #certain #certain extent #compared

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success. ↗

— Amy Tan

#always #been #brother #deaths #failure

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten. ↗

— Amy Tan

#expected #get #had #high #high expectations

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#advanced age #after #age #apparently #birth

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#after #among #anguish #birth #copy

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#director #going #i #oh #parents

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace. ↗

— Allen Tate

#career #career opportunities #careers #day #encourage

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#easily #energy #enrolled #every #handle

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#get #government #kick #need #pants

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#anything #child #doing #films #friends