David Elkind Quotes
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
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I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.
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I remember watching Audrey Hepburn dancing in movies, and I was inspired by how graceful she looked, though I understand it was no easy task.
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This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have; we cannot gamble away our future.
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I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.
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Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.
