Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes
If you take the time to listen to an upset child's story with empathy, and guide the child toward figuring out the root of the problem, then the result is often that the child not only calms down, but also in the future is less likely to get so upset.
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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.
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I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'
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The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots
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Natura d'ogni cosa più possente.
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I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.
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We would naturally prefer not to reckon with the worst of what people do or say on the margins, but we have to. Especially if it seems possible to trace a line from vicious rhetoric on a computer screen to violent action.
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I have a hard time repeating myself.
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And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.
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It's good to be an anarchist and just love yourself.
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Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
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We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.
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Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.
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I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.
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When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
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As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future.
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Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.
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Chaos does not unify. Chaos only serves the most extreme elements of society that seek to destabilize any semblance of order to fulfill their selfish lust for power.
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Poetry is a quality of the artistic expression independent of form.
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If you take the time to listen to an upset child's story with empathy, and guide the child toward figuring out the root of the problem, then the result is often that the child not only calms down, but also in the future is less likely to get so upset.
