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Seven years after my mother's passing, I still reach for the phone for a split second to call her. We spoke every day.


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TYLER COWEN I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $...
AISHA TYLER I've always loved video games. I played 'Ms. Pac-man' with my dad, and I Ioved 'Gala...
AISHA TYLER Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the m...
JOHN TYLER When I graduated from college, I got a 9-to-5 traditional job doing social media for a company, and ...
TYLER OAKLEY The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the ...
JOHN TYLER The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and art...
TYLER COWEN There are times when we look back and think, 'Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downsta...
TYLER JOSEPH Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.
STEVEN TYLER In elementary school, I loved the 'Bailey School Kids' series. It was about a group of class...
TYLER OAKLEY I have a whole 'Halo' corner in my house. One time, when I went to Bungie, they gave me this...
AISHA TYLER Some people would look at a backing track as something that would confine you, but it really frees u...
TYLER JOSEPH I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, ot...
ANNE TYLER We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: ...
TYLER WINKLEVOSS In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from ...
TYLER COWEN When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the ex...
JOHN TYLER I'd never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up...
TYLER HAMILTON I can't say that there's been some big change during my career where all of a sudden everyth...
AISHA TYLER Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
AISHA TYLER Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is ...
JOHN TYLER Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.
TYLER OAKLEY I really love being busy because I am - feel like I am at my best when I am busy.
AISHA TYLER My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or ...
TYLER FLORENCE I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were fr...
BONNIE TYLER It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find ama...
TYLER FLORENCE As you know, I'm androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn't put on. But you ma...
STEVEN TYLER If you weren't a risk-taker, you were always going to be a step behind. You could be the best cy...
TYLER HAMILTON My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
ANNE TYLER That was normal public opinion, ... He was not abnormal.
BRUCE TYLER It was one of the main gripes of the early civil rights movement and the NAACP, ... It was the major...
BRUCE TYLER Birth of a Nation.
BRUCE TYLER He's too close - he lived well into the 20th Century, ... If you look at Thomas Jefferson and presid...
BRUCE TYLER I think that was his humanity coming through, ... That he wanted this naturally without a lot of for...
BRUCE TYLER But that was the general view of the times, north and south, ... He was not unusual in that view. Th...
BRUCE TYLER The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many...
TYLER COWEN