Pico Iyer Quotes
There are literally Internet rescue camps in China and Korea to deal with children that are addicted. Internet disorder is maybe going to count as a psychiatric disorder in a couple of years.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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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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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.
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I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. They all have their own presence when they walk into a room, and I was excited to see what Tom Selleck's 'space' was going to be like.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.
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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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I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.
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I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.
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I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
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What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?
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Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
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Money will come, and opportunities will come, but the only thing we don't get back is time.
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I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
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I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
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There are literally Internet rescue camps in China and Korea to deal with children that are addicted. Internet disorder is maybe going to count as a psychiatric disorder in a couple of years.
