Where are all the sour patch parents?
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I’m just ready to keep going.
Billy GilmanBilly Gilman I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I am very lucky to have the opportunity to travel to so many amazing destinations for work!
Brad GoreskiBrad Goreski Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed.
Benjamin BannekerBenjamin Banneker What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it’s totally not, which is why I’m trying to get away from it because it’s just easy and automatic.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham How old is too old to stop believing in, like, the tooth fairy? Like 12? I’ve got a cousin who is 18… Yeah, still believes in gay marriage.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham You love the people that give you money and attention? Of course you do, that’s not selfless that you love your fans, that’s ridiculous.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I just think they aren’t true. I’m saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don’t know if I’m doing that, but I’m trying.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham What’s that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I’ll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham The classic comedian says there’s nothing that’s taboo; if you laugh at one thing you’ve got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.
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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
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So I had to figure out for myself what was right and true. It was a search. It was a process. It drew on the moral sense that I’d learned from my parents, and in church, and in my own heart, and led me on my own journey of discovery.
Tim CookTim Cook People lose their minds, trying to prove their parental worth by getting their children into one of five colleges; when there are thousands of good colleges across the United States – and elsewhere.
Tina FeyTina Fey Sadie,” he said forlornly, “when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children’s.
Rick RiordanRick Riordan It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
Anthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?
Rick RiordanRick Riordan And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here.
Kevin DurantKevin Durant The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.
Angela DuckworthAngela Duckworth I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
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