Wendy Mogel Quotes
Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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Life is a school of probability.
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Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.
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Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.
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The Internet really offered a space for me to thrive.
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Cheerleader roles are really not my thing. I want things that are weird or not typical.
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I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
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Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.
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Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.
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We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.
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Britney's a really cool girl, We were really close back when we were on the Mickey Mouse Club, and even watching her in interviews I find myself missing her lately. I'm really proud of her, how far she's come and what she's been able to accomplish. And to keep it together: It's so crazy out on the road. I gotta give her credit for not just going berserk and letting everybody get to her. I just passed on my number to her through somebody. It's good to have friends in the business who know what you're going through.
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travesty and a strategic blunder of epic proportions on the part of the Defense Department.
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A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
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It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
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I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.
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Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.
