Ingmar Bergman Quotes
I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
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Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
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Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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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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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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I like children - fried.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.
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If I have a bad shooting day, my dad will take me to the gym.
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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
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American Graffiti was the first movie where the director let me have any input. It was the first time anyone ever listened to me. George thought my character should have a crew cut, but I wasn't happy with that idea. I'd always had pretty long hair back then - in college, particularly - so I told George my character should wear a cowboy hat. George thought about it and he remembered a bunch of guys from Modesto, California, who cruised around, like my character, and wore cowboy hats, so it turned out that it actually fit the movie.
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When I enjoy my surfing, I get good results, and I've always had fun in South Africa.
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Being cool was always very important to me, but I decided to get rich, so I went for it.
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I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
