My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
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KINKY FRIEDMAN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to... PATRICK MURPHY Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA Nevertheless, there are still many more being held in the prisons. ASTRID VAN GENDEREN STORT When you're playing against a whole bunch of All-Stars, it's like a video game. There's ... KYRIE IRVING There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat. OMAR EPPS I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he ha... CHRIS ISAAK you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... NED VIZZINI My grandparents live in Cley, and my dad now has the windmill which is a guest house. So I've sp... JAMES BLUNT Marlena's body was found on November 19, and so I consider that the anniversary of her death, though... JULIE BUNTIN My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basica... THOM YORKE There are no ugly Loves, nor handsome Prisons BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I... MARY-LOUISE PARKER Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the... LAURA DERN In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read. PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ... LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the... ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ... GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ... GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an... ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�... مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT It was a huge success. So much so that (Leader) decided he wanted to bring it to the county prisons. MARCIA SINKOVITZ There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the fi... LIZZO History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN At my house, it's an, 'If dad says it, you can say it' kind of deal, so a lot of my slan... A.J. STYLES That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I wou... JOE TORRE It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and wate... COREY FELDMAN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER ...nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to ... FANNIE FLAGG My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods. HUNTER PARRISH Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when ... MICKEY ROURKE My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comical... LAKE BELL My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant ... LAURA BELL BUNDY There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. 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I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietna... VANESSA KERRY Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me.... MALAIKA ARORA KHAN It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN [The prisons are] the monuments of Australia-the Paestums [of] an extraordinary time-an effort to ex... ROBERT HUGHES My dad made these dough balls and covered them up with a cloth in front of a gas fire, which was stu... PAUL HOLLYWOOD
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