David Elkind Quotes
The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
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Work in the fields? Senator, I'm a house nigga.
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I always knew that saying the unsayable was going to be a powerful thing.
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Being the first female Doctor and showing children that their heroes in shows don't always look the same is a huge honour for me.
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There is no going back to a time when most women will feel compelled to enter or stay in a bad marriage just for economic security or social respectability. So today, the best way to get women once more interested in getting married and having children is for men to accept women's new insistence on equality. This is, I think, why educated women in America, are now more pro - marriage and more disapproving of divorce than other groups of women who have less experience with egalitarian partners or less clout in getting their needs met in relationships.
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The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.
