William Blake Quotes
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.
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My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.
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Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?
