Lois Capps Quotes
In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
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Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read 'US Weekly' or anything like that. They give me space. They don't care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.
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When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
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America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.
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One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.
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Can a person be inspirational? Does a person have global sensibility? That's the hardest thing to find.
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The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
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If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.
