David Elkind Quotes
When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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Reggae goes in and out. It sounds so good, it feels so good and feels so tropical, but the problem is not everybody is Caribbean. Not everyone is going to sound authentic doing it, and sometimes it comes off cheesy when other people do it.
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I have the advantage of being pretty small, so if I'm flying myself, I'm flying coach. To save the money. I just put in my headphones, and it's no big thing. I keep my head down, wear a hoodie or a hat - but sometimes not even that. I'm small. People miss me.
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We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.
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The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.
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Sleeping and being asleep is one of my favorite activities. Really, what I wanted to do is provide a landscape or a musical place where people could fall asleep.
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When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.
