Martin Freeman Quotes
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players.
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We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading and mathematics, but also soft skills, like conflict resolution and financial management.
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I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.
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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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I like children - fried.
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and introduced myself to store employees who I hope will sell them.
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Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.
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I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.
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I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.
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The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.
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I hope I inspire children to make films.
