Anthony Lane Quotes
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.
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I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long as I was working constantly, that was fine, because, although I don't have any children, I do relate better to them than adults.
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I think the pageant system is about empowering women. I think that aspect of it is great, but when you take parents who are forcing their children to do anything, I don't think it's healthy.
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People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.
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Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.
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My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
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Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.
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When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana. The purpose of such meditation is to empty oneself. [Satan] is happy to invade the empty vacuum of your soul and possess it. That is why people serve Satan without ever knowing it or deciding to, but no one can be a child of God without making a decision to surrender to him. Beware of systems of spirituality which tell you to empty yourself. You will end up filled with something you probably do not want.
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Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.
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If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.
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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
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I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
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Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.
