"Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong."

-- Jamie Lee Curtis

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“You love somebody, and then you don't love them anymore. But if you really love somebody, you always love them, don't you? Isn't there always some small part of you that reads their horoscope in the paper everyday?”
“Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.”
“My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.”

Source : "Brett Ratner on How His Homeless Father Inspired His Nonprofit Work". www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 25, 2012.
“Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.”
“One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.”

Source : Marshall Sahlins (2013). “Stone Age Economics”, p.38, Routledge
“To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that which is not typical. "To illustrate a principle ," says Bagehot , "you must exaggerate much and you must omit much." As to the quantity of absolute truth in a thought : it seems to me the more comprehensive and unobjectionable a thought becomes, the more clumsy and unexciting it gets. I like half-truths of a certain kind they are interesting and they stimulate.”
“You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.”

Source : "Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Eat This!)". TV Series, April 4, 2003.
“Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.”

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