Eda LeShan Quotes
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It takes three to make a child.
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When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
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These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
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I'm an only child, and we're a close family.
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You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
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I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
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Nobody wants to sell their child, but what they wind up doing is selling their child to be able to support their family.
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Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
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Every time a child is born, we have another chance.
