"I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work."

-- Ben Marcus

#Kids Quotes #Play Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.”

Source : William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.111
“How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.”
“Yes, there truly is a joy to giving.”

Source : Charles Bronfman, Jeffrey R. Solomon (2009). “The Art of Giving: Where the Soul Meets a Business Plan”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons
“If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.”
“The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.”
“Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists were listening.”
“... my daughter McKenna thought I sang with the Everly Brothers ... I said, 'no I was one of the Righteous Brothers' and she said 'didn't they invent the airplane?'”
“Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.”

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