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Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#behavior #being #bind #comes #could

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions. ↗

— Robert. L. Ehrlich

#instead #leaders #own #polls #sway

I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood. ↗

— David Cone

#city #down #father #guess #guy

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#had #i #since #started #theatrical

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear. ↗

— Mary Church Terrell

#children #colored #crosses #heaviest #prejudice

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them. ↗

— Donald Davis

#just #learn #stories #them

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser. ↗

— Marc Davis

#father #something

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#been #could #i #late #me

When I was younger, I'd be like 'Would you like to go to dinner' and the girl would be like 'Meh.' But then I was like 'Do you want to go with me for a drink somewhere?' and she'd be like 'Okay.' ↗

— Ben Savage

#drink #girl #go #i #like

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#between #bored #daydreaming #difference #doing