Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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I'm re-teaming with the producers of 'Twilight,' whom I love and who I have an amazing relationship with.
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In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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In the ’50s and ’60s there was segregation here in the Bay Area and all over the country. There was a curfew for young blacks my age in the Fillmore district where I lived. It was a disturbing thing. There were civil rights movements here in San Francisco. They would show on the national news the dogs being sicced on the marchers, being sprayed with the hoses, being beaten with the batons.
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When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
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Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.
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A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.
