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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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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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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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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And you're not happy but you're funny and I'm tripping over my joy. I just keep on gettin up again.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
