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Dad worked as a security guard for United Airlines, and Mom was a housewife who cleaned houses to make ends meet.

~Dennis Haysbert

Topics: Airlines Cleaned Dad Ends Guard Houses Housewife Make Meet Mom Security United Who Worked

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A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet.

~Dennis L. Mckiernan

Topics: Born Child Dad Depression Depths Ends Factory Great Great Depression Make Meet Middle Mom Struggling Were Workers I Was Born

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I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.

~Dhanush

Topics: Afford Assistant Background Become Come Could Day Director Ends Father Had Hard He His Humble Jobs Large Large Part Lived Make Meal Meet Mill Odd Only Part Really Room Small Took Up Very Work Worked Youth

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Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

~Diane Sawyer

Topics: About Always Being Dash Ends Every Every Time Flash Forgetting Go Important Important Things Interesting Interesting People Main Main Thing More People Reinvent Saying Sets Somebody Technology Thing Things Time Tries Up Which

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Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

~Diane Von Furstenberg

Topics: Ends Fairy Fairy Tale Girl Marriage Marrying Mine Over Prince Soon Started Tale

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It's weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them every day - your editor, the casting people, music people, your actors - then it ends. It's like a circus life.

~Dito Montiel

Topics: Actor Casting Circus Day Editor Ends Every Every Day Intense Life Like Making Months Movie Music People Relationships Talk Them Then Three Very Weird You Your

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No one wants growth, constant expansion, physical swelling. Growth is not a human value; it's a means to the ends of sufficiency and security. Once we have enough, no one wants more, unless it is sold to us as a cheap substitute for something else, something non-material.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Cheap Constant Else Ends Enough Expansion Growth Human Means More Once Physical Security Sold Something Something Else Substitute Unless Us Value Wants

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Communication is paramount, and what medium or what format you utilize should be a non-issue. In some respects, that has created a barrier for new media, especially web new media, because often times maybe the media itself comes before the concept, before the ideas, and ends up navigating or dictating the outcome.

~Doug Aitken

Topics: Barrier Because Before Communication Concept Created Ends Format Ideas Itself Maybe Media Medium New New Media Often Outcome Paramount Respects Should Some Times Up Utilize Web You

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I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.

~Douglas Feaver

Topics: Babies Both Ends Leak Love Mothers Them Think Why

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One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple's development must come from within.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Against Also Apple Argument Bad Become Come Confusion Development Does Elegance Ends Environment Everything Fertility Good Good And Bad Less Like Loose Mac Must Open Prevent Prevents Richard Skyscraper Sterile Systems Within

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