Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
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If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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I think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out - from your computer itself to a kid in India messing around with $10.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
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When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
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It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.
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Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.
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Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.
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Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.
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I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.
