Vivienne Westwood Quotes
What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young – most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.
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We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.
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I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
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My kids love going to school. When my son started going to kindergarten, we asked him, 'How was it?' and his only complaint was that he didn't get to stay in there longer.
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A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.
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To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
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Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.
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I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.
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When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.
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I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.
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At the end of the day, it's up to me to get the job done but it's always nice to have someone to help you get through the tough week.
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What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.
