Nancy Etcoff Quotes

When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive...abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.

Nancy Etcoff

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• I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Literature

• 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.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Children
  • Society
  • Education

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Serious

• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Children
  • True

• It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Children

• When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Time
  • Children
  • Sea

• Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Reality
  • Wish
  • Face

• The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Weird
  • Dog
  • Bird

• Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • God
  • Children

• I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Children
  • Style
  • Imagination

• I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Children
  • Family
  • Outside

• My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Life
  • Children
  • Father

• We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates international headlines, but children in Niger suffering from drought and children in Britain suffering from leukaemia go unnoticed.

  

  David Harewood
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

  

  Marshall Herskovitz
  • Children
  • Movie
  • Engineering

• I was making out with this woman, and my shirt was off, and she leaned over and, in a really cute, girly voice, went, 'Hey, fatty!'

  

  Jason Segel
  • She
  • Cute
  • Girly

• In healthy families, children discover (through being listened to) that what they have to say is important and that their experiences and ideas (and they themselves) have worth. They are encouraged to think for themselves, express opinions, and make decisions for themselves. Parents supporting them in standing on their own two feet and doing what they think is right. Trusting and gaining confidence in themselves, they develop an inner locus of control.

  

  Louise Hart
  • Important
  • Children
  • Parents

• We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

  

  Charles Vest
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Education

• Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

  

  Tommy Flanagan
  • Acting
  • My Mind
  • Growing Up

• When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

  

  Marlene Dietrich

• I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

  

  Paul Bremer

• When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive...abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.

  

  Nancy Etcoff
  • Children
  • Face
  • Cute