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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I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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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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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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I never forget that I'm extremely fortunate.
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Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they're absolutely stewed out of their brains.
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I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.
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I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around.
