I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.'
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WILLIAM KAMKWAMBA I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I w... ADAM FERRARA Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heart... JULIANA HATFIELD I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; ... R. L. STINE There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, es... SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day... ALICE EVE I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, 'I don't want to have a... MIKE D When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you&... JOE TORRE We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... 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TERRY PRATCHETT DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH. TERRY PRATCHETT It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Li... TERRY PRATCHETT Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif... TERRY PRATCHETT Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—species... TERRY PRATCHETT Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look alon... TERRY PRATCHETT Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the mus... TERRY PRATCHETT Don't worry, it's not loaded. TERRY KATH Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. TERRY PRATCHETT To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darknes... TERRY PRATCHETT Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and... TERRY PRATCHETT No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and hom... TERRY PRATCHETT "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"<... TERRY PRATCHETT Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.... TERRY PRATCHETT Conceived as a short-term remedy to the occasional ailment of acute labour shortages in key industri... TERRY GLAVIN When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other ... TERRY BRADSHAW I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is grow... TERRY PRATCHETT I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal. TERRY SOUTHERN As far back as Iran's aborted 'Green Revolution' in 2009, Obama's supplications to I... TERRY GLAVIN A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of M... TERRY GLAVIN Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain... TERRY SOUTHERN What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a... TERRY WOGAN Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every... JOHN TERRY I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the pr... TERRY PRATCHETT Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w... TERRY BROOKS Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what mig... TERRY TEACHOUT Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. TERRY PRATCHETT There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from differ... TERRY PRATCHETT It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Al... TERRY PRATCHETT It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and th... TERRY PRATCHETT My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my... TERRY WOGAN