Elizabeth George Speare Quotes
From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.
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It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
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Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
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I do not like toll roads. Taxpayers are already paying for those roads through their gas taxes, and then to turn around and tell them they need to pay more to drive on the roads, I don't like it.
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First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.
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There's a difference between good chemistry and a bond. Chemistry is something you have with somebody you meet - or you don't. It's an intangible. It may be superficial. It's much harder to put your finger on than a bond.
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'Finding Nemo' has spawned so many sort of emotions over the years. I don't even know that you could really understand exactly what parents and kids are seeing in it, but they can see a lot of different stuff.
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My father, who was a hair colourist, died when I was young, so my mother had to work very hard. But at the same time, I do believe that if you have everything, it is easy to make a dinner. When you only have flour and water and olives and potatoes, you have to be much more creative, and that's what my mother is all about.
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The main experience, I think, is that we have managed: people moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways.
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Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
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There's nothing easy about building a company at all. I find it really hard, just painful and difficult, and if you are successful, it's even worse than if you fail.
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My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.
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Whenever someone asks me to name a dream hero or pair, I always end up getting Bollywood names in my mind.
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I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
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I'm Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Adrenaline makes me change.
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I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world.
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The need to look behind the curtain is great for a filmmaker. But whether you want to deconstruct what you like as a viewer, what you like and don't like, I wish we could let films stand on their own a little bit.
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College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood.
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The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.
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There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music is about.
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If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'
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I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.
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The most important job in life is being a mom.
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From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.
