Tom Allen Quotes
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
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Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.
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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.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
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One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
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Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.
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Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.
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As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.
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It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
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Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.
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If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.
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In the United States, you might say every county has got its own separate system. There's not even one kind of ballot that you use all over the United States. We require that in a foreign country.
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I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
