Madeleine Bunting Quotes
Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.
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I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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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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I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
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I'd love my children no matter what.
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The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
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I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.
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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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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.
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Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.
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I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.
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If the Republican party shall fail to carry out this purpose, God will raise up another party that will be faithful.
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But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.
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The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.
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Doctors should have access to all scientifically sound information so that they can prescribe appropriate medication for their patients.
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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
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Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.
