Jane Smiley Quotes
I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.Jane Smiley
Quotes to Explore
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Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.
J. R. Smith -
I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
Kamisese Mara -
We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
Aaron Brown -
This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
Farrah Fawcett -
My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
Dan Marino -
I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
Mandy Moore
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
Vince Cable -
I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
Kate Hudson -
Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
Walter Dean Myers -
Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
Viggo Mortensen -
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.
Naveen Jain -
On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.
Malcolm Turnbull
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I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?
Edith Stein -
I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
Zoe Kazan -
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
Carl Jung -
Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'
Natasha Henstridge -
Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
Dalton Trumbo
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When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.
Johnny Vegas -
We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.
Edgar Mitchell -
It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.
Eddie Campbell -
I grew up in a great family.
Brian McBride -
I've been surfing since I was a kid.
Luke Hemsworth -
I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
Jane Smiley