Christina Stead Quotes
A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
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The trials my father went through were things most young black males have to go through. There was nothing he shielded from me, because it doesn't matter how you grow up, those who oppress will oppress. It's all completely relatable; everyone feels NWA.
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I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.
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All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.
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17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
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When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside.
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I think in the industry we're in and the type of audience we have, we're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway? I don't want to grow up.
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I want to make 'Smackdown' the brand to watch, but beyond that main-eventing, 'WrestleMania' is the next step.
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I want the state to take away people's guns. But I don't want the state to use methods against gun owners that I deplore when used against naughty children, sexual minorities, drug users, and unsightly drinkers. Since such reprehensible police practices are probably needed to make anti-gun laws effective, my proposal to ban all guns should probably be marked a failure before it is even tried.
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I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.
