Els Borst Quotes
My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.
Quotes to Explore
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Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
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I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
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The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process.
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Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.
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Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.
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I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to take on those topics, whether or not I publish the poems.
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As pain tells us of the need for healing, worry tells us of the need for prayer.
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First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.
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My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.
