Darell Hammond Quotes
Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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I'd love my children no matter what.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.
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It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.
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I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
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Many poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
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I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.
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If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.
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Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.
