Dana Gioia Quotes
Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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In Europe and Sweden, we see boobs on TV, and it's not a big deal. Everyone has them; everyone has seen them.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.
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An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
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When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?
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My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.
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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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I love children. They're so much fun and I would have a blast spoiling them.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.
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While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.
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As the father of eight children, I'm quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries - it's the I that's in the ever-changing body.
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I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.
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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.
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It's kind of weird because 'Saint George' shoots on the exact same lot that 'Justified' did and, actually, the exact same soundstage, too.
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I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.
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I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'
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[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the mind, but upon the whole mind, that this is the greatest desideratum is. I assume, beyond dispute.
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Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.
