"I think the tendency with parents is to make your kid not unlike the next kid but to overprotect and say, "My way's better than whatever you've got in mind." But by the time that tie's over that shoulder and they're drinking that obligatory brewski with the boys, it's like, Man, who are you people?"

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Source : Source: www.esquire.com

Nick Tosches

#Drinking Quotes #Kids Quotes #Boys Quotes

“The kitchen is a sacred space.”

Source : "Marc Forgione After Tossing Times Writer: ‘A Lot of Chefs Would Be in Jail Right Now’" by Daniel Maurer, www.grubstreet.com. May 11, 2010.
“I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States”
“Apart from the obvious advantages of having ice to melt, filter, then drink, you can also break apart the water's hydrogen from its oxygen. Use the hydrogen and some of the oxygen as active ingredients in rocket fuel and keep the rest of the oxygen for breathing. And in your spare time between space missions, you can always go ice skating on the frozen lake created with the extracted water.”
“In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.”
“Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.”

Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.33, Macmillan
“I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.”
“Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.”
“If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.”

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