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My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and m

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics. – Sloane Crosley

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Its funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. Theyre usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate. – Sloane Crosley

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I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend youre not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture. – Sloane Crosley

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Theres already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk – except they all apply to you, and all at once. – Sloane Crosley

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Im essentially a mommas boy with a good education. – Tom Sizemore

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Ive seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and Ive seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit. – Ron Silver

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Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. – Robert M. Hutchins

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Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty. – Kathleen Blanco

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I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed. – Chief Joseph

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By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. – Lawrence Welk

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This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you wont get it back later. – Laura Schlessinger

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