Anya Kamenetz Quotes
We have to be role models. We have to be curious. Above all, we have to pay attention and be part of the conversation while our kids are still listening to us.Anya Kamenetz
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
Maggie Rowe -
When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
Hallie Ephron -
What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
Wadah Khanfar -
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
Kate Capshaw -
The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
Walt Mossberg -
Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.
Valentina Zelyaeva
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
Han Fei -
It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
Haley Joel Osment -
Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
Pamela Anderson -
Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
Felix Dennis -
We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.
Ion Tiriac
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
Harold S. Geneen -
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G. M. Trevelyan -
I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
Irvine Welsh -
Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova -
This was what a lot of us, mainly young men, did in the summers in northern Arizona. This is how I put myself through college. I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.
Matthew Desmond -
Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.
Constantin Stanislavski -
I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
Edie Falco -
Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.
Jane Velez-Mitchell -
My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.
Ahmet Ertegun -
We have to be role models. We have to be curious. Above all, we have to pay attention and be part of the conversation while our kids are still listening to us.
Anya Kamenetz