"Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me."

-- Tatum O'Neal

#Dad Quotes #Awards Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.”
“Gentlemanly, principled, helpful behaviour by older men vis-a-vis young women goes unnoticed, but it deserves real moral credit, and we could use more first-person testimony from the beneficiaries and practitioners about that too.”
“People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.”

Source : "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 16, 2003.
“People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders.”
“A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of adhering to society's moral codes but rather to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution. [Legalizing "same-sex marriage"] is also a chance to wholly transform the definition of family in American culture.”

Source : "How We Got to the Supreme Court" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.
“The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.”
“What can I say about this move? Nothing so I won't.”
“I adore the game, but wouldn't be interested in being the England coach in a million years.”

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