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Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the nags of pick-that-up and you’re-going-to-be-late, keepers of the diary of her duties and routines, memories, rather, of when they found one another afresh, beyond the tensions between parental mastery and inept childish uncertainty, of those moments of respite in a family’s life when they could reach one another in calm ↗

— Philip Roth

#parenthood #family

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#choir #first #hearing #i #i remember

We've got to get our fans back. We've got to start winning and get our fans excited about the 76ers again... We're selling hope. This is about hope. We have hope that we have a chance to be good. ↗

— Doug Collins

#again #back #chance #excited #fans

This is America, not a banana republic. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#banana #republic

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#good #heroic #remind #show #stories

I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me. ↗

— Charles Townshend

#cannot #does #end #expense #go

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#boy #girl #i #know #right

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that. ↗

— Frank Bruno

#brought #came #doing #got #i

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#court #hard #like #marble #palace

The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#become #broadcast #changing #internet #network