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I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: About Because Being Family Home Keep Keeps Marriage Mean Our Ourselves Quite Reputations Reveal Slip Think Truths Where Written I Think

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With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Able Accounting Always Being Calculus Child Contracts Demands Ears Education Firmly Hands He Hear Parent Prep Public Public Schools Says Schools Shake Spanish Special Special Education Standardized Statistics Study Test Want Write

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I totally remember that: being 25 and unemployed and trying to stretch each cappuccino for 60 minutes.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Being Each Minutes Remember Stretch Totally Trying Unemployed

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We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it was a much softer type of being disconcerted.

~Amor Towles

Topics: American Aspects Being Citizens Era Extreme Focused Majority Much Repression Russian Softer Study Them Type Vast Vast Majority

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As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend a lot of time imagining how things might otherwise have been. But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Admit Been Being Between Both Devoted Difference History How Imagining Like Living Lot Man Might Otherwise Present Resigned Situation Spend Student Things Think Time

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I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had a whole mature realm of accomplishments and responsibilities, an identity outside of being a writer.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Accomplishments Advantage Being Career Children Had Identity Later Life Mature My Life Outside Realm Responsibilities Two Whole Writer Writing

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The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.

~Amos Lee

Topics: About Being Cool Cool Thing Different Different Things Experience General Guess Just Lot Songwriter Take Them Thing Things Writer Writing You

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The real challenge lies in maintaining dignity while being funny. I am in awe of Krushna Abhishek's energy and Bharti Singh's wit. They are infectious and selfless.

~Amruta Khanvilkar

Topics: Am Awe Being Being Funny Challenge Dignity Energy Funny Infectious Lies Maintaining Real Selfless While Wit I Am

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I am very uncomfortable being romantic. I can be funny; I can be all over the place. I can be anything but romantic.

~Amruta Khanvilkar

Topics: Am Anything Being Funny Over Place Romantic Uncomfortable Very I Am I Can

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The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate's political speech is more speech - not government censorship.

~Amul Thapar

Topics: Being Candidate Censorship Government Judicial Misled More Political Political Speech Potentially Solution Speech Voters

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