"You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face."

-- Pico Iyer

#Father Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Some men dont want to be responsible fathers. Its easier to say Lets just turn the kids over to the state. Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.”
“I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.”
“The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.”
“There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.”
“I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.”
“Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.”
“Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.”
“It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.”

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