John Fairchild Quotes
My new life is being with my wife without any interference, and the children come see us every once in a while.
Quotes to Explore
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I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
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When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.
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The key thing to understand is that solar activity causes shifts in the jet stream with consequent changes in weather patterns and triggers processes that lead to storm formation.
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You really find out who your friends are and who you can trust. That definitely toughens you.
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My new life is being with my wife without any interference, and the children come see us every once in a while.
