Phyllis Theroux Quotes
Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.
Phyllis Theroux
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
F. Murray Abraham
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
Garrett Hedlund
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
Taylor Negron
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
Magnus Carlsen
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov
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I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
Abbey Lincoln
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Why do you bother asking, when you know the answer and you also know that you don't intend to believe it?
Orson Scott Card
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There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.
Walter Benjamin
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Bombay, which sold about 120,000 copies, is widely rated as my most successful work, though Roja is definitely the score that brought me where I am today.
A. R. Rahman
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P. 33.
Amitabh Bachchan
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The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion - this is the worst form of woman slavery our time has created.
Ellen Key
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If you think the products don't match what you want from a product, don't buy it.
Donald Norman
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Life is an adventure - Savor every instant!
Edward Boyden
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I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.
Marina Abramovic
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I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.
Anzia Yezierska
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Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.
Ben Yagoda
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Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.
Phyllis Theroux
