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Regina Brett

"We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens when ordinary people take extraordinary action. To be a miracle doesn't mean you have to tackle problems across the globe. It means making a difference in your own living room, cubicle, neighborhood, community."

Source : Regina Brett (2012). “Be the Miracle: 50 Lessons for Making the Impossible Possible”, p.4, Hachette UK

Regina Brett

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“Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.”

Source : "Obama and Gay Marriage: Runaway Bride?". www.newyorker.com. June 30, 2011.
“We can’t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young friends. We must join our voices with that blessed poet June Jordan and demonstrate that 'we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.'”
“I think I'm becoming a psychologist in explaining the Republican Party. It's the only way you can explain 'em. It's psychological.”
“Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?”
“Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.”
“Exercising can exorcise emotional pain.”
“Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.”
“When a teacher is paying extra attention to your child, you believe that it's because you raised such an exceptional kid, one that stands out head and shoulders above the rest of her booger-eating friends.”

Source : Drew Magary (2013). “Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood”, p.33, Penguin

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