John Niven Quotes
I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.

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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.
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In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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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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I like children - fried.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.
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In government, things do not move too quick. That is why I am trying to introduce a new culture: so that things move more quickly.
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The Scarecrow watched the Woodman while he worked and said to him "I cannot think why this wall is here nor what it is made of." "Rest you brains and do not worry about the wall," replied the Woodman, "when we have climbed over it we shall know what is on the other side.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.
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I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.
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I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.