"Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice."

-- Dan Quayle

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Character Quotes

“To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.”
“I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.”
“The real world is horrible.”
“If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.”
“I have a red line against the Americans.”
“If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.”
“Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.”
“Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world â€” Los Angeles in the '50s â€” they made perfect sense.”

Source : Wanda Coleman (2005). “The Riot Inside Me: More Trials & Tremors”, p.7, David R. Godine Publisher

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