Jeff Vandermeer Quotes
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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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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
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Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
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I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
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If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.
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You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.
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My parents were in the Peace Corps.
