Nancy Chodorow Quotes
"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
Quotes to Explore
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.
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Too clever is dumb.
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
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Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.
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I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
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I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
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The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.
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You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.
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I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.
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Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.
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"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
