Haim Ginott Quotes
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!
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Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.
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People have a wild response to something, and they want it. Sometimes people lose themselves.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
