Ben Askren I’m just a straightforward kind of dude. – Ben Askren Dude Quotes Straightforward Quotes One of my favorite topics to read about my whole life has just been famous athletes, and a lot of those have been combat athletes. I wasn’t granted the opportunity to fight some of the best guys in the world. And that was something that was not on my end by any sense of the imagination.
Chandra Wilson I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn’t give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It’s not a spread-open-the-arms, ‘come here’ hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries. – Chandra Wilson
Sheryl Swoopes For me, honestly, it’s not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It’s about what I’ve got to do and how I can contribute to the team. – Sheryl Swoopes
Amy Wax A lot of the problems we have in our criminal-justice system, you know, the problem of over-incarceration, the problem of prosecutorial abuse, the problem of just this sort of mass crop of people, of plea bargains, they all have to do with the system being overloaded. If crime was lower, many of the problems would go away. – Amy Wax
Rabih Alameddine When I wrote my first book, ‘Koolaids,’ I felt rejected and not wanted. – Rabih Alameddine
Add comment