David Elkind Quotes
The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
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My whole deal is I want to have a principle-based, member-driven caucus.
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I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
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It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.
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Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?
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I love to watch 'Hoarders.' My grandmother was a hoarder. My mother's on her way. I'm an electronics hoarder - I won't throw any out. I still have my first T-Mobile Sidekick... old VCRs in my garage. It scares me that I'm going to end up being buried under electronics.
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Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.
