Alexander Sutherland Neill Quotes
When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.Alexander Sutherland Neill
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
Kate Winslet -
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
Ian Hislop -
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
Aaron Neville -
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian -
Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
Barry Hannah -
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
Karl Jaspers -
My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
Gary Coleman -
I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
T Bone Burnett -
Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
Felicity Kendal
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
Rafael Correa -
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
Camille Paglia -
Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
Tariq Ramadan -
I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.
Washed Out -
I was always amazed when people were kind to us.
Patrick Modiano
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
Aristophanes -
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Mary Wollstonecraft -
I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
Nancy Cartwright -
A man's kiss is his signature.
Mae West -
I didn't go to high school, but when I did go to school, I was actually in the group made up of cheerleaders; I just wasn't one of them. But I hung out with a bunch of different kids.
Ashley Benson -
When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.
Alexander Sutherland Neill