My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
BRAD MELTZERAs I tell my daughter, when you want something in life – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it.
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Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.
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Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.
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There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you’re miserable and working out.
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When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you’ve ever fought before.
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The past may not hurt you, but it won’t challenge you, either.
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As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it.
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She wasn’t tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.
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Haven’t you ever played Uno?… Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.
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I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It’s like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.
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Overwatch doesn’t just bring together the legal and espionage genres. It merges family problems with professional ones, swirls in a major helping of murder and mayhem, and with a deft touch, reminds us why politics is-always-perso nal.
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No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.
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But to me, the most important page in my daughter’s book is the last one – because it’s blank. It says, “Your Hero’s Photo Here,” and, “Your Hero’s Story Here.”
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The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
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So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that’s nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.
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Don’t go to eighth grade…don’t talk about something old…don’t bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.
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