David Elkind Quotes
Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.
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Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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The biggest killer of people is food.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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American voters tend to make their decisions based on a variety of vectors. Professional political satirists employ rather more scientific criteria. Namely: who will provide us with better material over the next four years?
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I'm a very slow reader.
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Death likes it when you play hard to get.
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Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.
