Quote by Ellen Goodman
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, drivin

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. – Ellen Goodman

Other quotes by Ellen Goodman

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience — unless they are still up. – Ellen Goodman

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Morning
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We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? – Ellen Goodman

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parenting
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We spend January1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential. – Ellen Goodman

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January
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car
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I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims. – Gio Gonzalez

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car

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car. – Erma Bombeck

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car

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when Im washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when youre driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them. – Al Jarreau

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car

No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times. – Danica Patrick

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car

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Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishings sake — that little more which is worth all the rest. – Dean Briggs

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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. – H. L. Mencken

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Government

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options. – Thomas Menino

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Learning

If you always make excuses to not follow through you deserve the weight of anxiety on your chest. – Daniel, @blindedpoet

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