William Damon Quotes
Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.William Damon
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
Camila Alves -
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
Vidal Sassoon -
All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
Tab Hunter -
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln -
My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
Tate Donovan -
The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
Wang Jianlin
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
Zach Galifianakis -
Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.
Ha-Joon Chang -
An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
Malcolm McDowell -
My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.
Abigail Disney -
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
C. L. R. James -
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
Abu Bakr
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I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
Oliver North -
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert Camus -
As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We parsed and argued and jeered at the screen as national figures delivered careful, poll-tested talking points.
Anand Giridharadas -
The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
Bianca Jagger -
Coming in, I had no idea basketball would be a career for me, but I grew 7 inches in college and was fortunate to have a great career in the NBA. The experience taught me about service, what our great country was built on, the sacrifices people have made, how to work together and trust the people around you to accomplish a great goal.
David Robinson The Cars -
I love my heritage. I'm very proud of being Cuban. But I clearly understand that I am an American first.
Carlos Beruff
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I always sort of liked Mesa/Boogies, but I wasn't sure if they were cool or not cool.
Kurt Vile -
People have said to me 'I hope you won't let happen in Washington what is happening in Kansas.'
Dennis Moore -
Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.
Norman Vincent Peale -
In training horses, one trains himself.
Antoine de Pluvinel -
When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.
Utah Phillips -
Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.
William Damon