Alexander Sutherland Neill Quotes
The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.
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Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
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I enjoy every second I'm in the gym. I love to challenge myself, push myself; obviously there's a lot of different routines and a lot of different stuff we do - love cycling, and again, it's part of my lifestyle.
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I'm not really a model.
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I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.
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Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.
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It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
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When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.
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I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.
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I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.
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We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.
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The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
