Alexander Sutherland Neill Quotes
I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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There, like the wind through woods in riot,Through him the gale of life blew high;The tree of man was never quiet:Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.
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Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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My kids completely understand that I may be on a huge show or in a big movie, but most of the time, they are not terribly impressed.
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around.
