Wendy Mogel Quotes
If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while they are still adolescents.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
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Love is more than one thing.
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
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With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
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This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.
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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
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Sometimes, the supposedly weak groups turn out to be very difficult, and the supposedly strong ones are easier to take control of.
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One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.
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The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.
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I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.
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“Every war casts up certain small groups among ethnic populations: minorities too cowardly to fight openly, too insignificant to play any independent political part, but despicable enough to act as paid executioners to one of the fighting powers. In this war those people were the Ukrainian and Lithuanian Fascists.”
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If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while they are still adolescents.
