"Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side."

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Source : "Apocalypse Iowa". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 04, 2012.

Gail Collins

#Kids Quotes #Grandparent Quotes #Sides Quotes

“I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.”
“Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.”
“When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.”
“There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.”
“I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I'm shooting for the middle.”
“Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, leave you toothless.”
“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.”

Source : Time Magazine, June 02, 1986.
“I kept interrupting the movie by asking a lot of questions that Xavier managed to answer with endless patience. "How old do you think Bell is supposed to be?" "I don't know, probably our age." "I think the beast is sweet, don't you?" "Do I have to answer that?" "Why does the crockery talk?" "Because they're really the prince's servants that the beggar woman put a spell on." Xavier frowned suddenly and looked mortified. "I can't believe I know that.”

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