T. Berry Brazelton Quotes
Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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The brave and clear platform adopted by this convention, to which I heartily subscribe, sets forth that government in a modern civilization has certain inescapable obligations to its citizens, among which are protection of the family and the home, the establishment of a democracy of opportunity, and aid to those overtaken by disaster.
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We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.
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I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.
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But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
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Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.
