Haim Ginott Quotes
Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.
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I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
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I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.
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If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.
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A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.
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For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I'd been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They're like, 'I want to know everything! I want to know it all!'
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The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.
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Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
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Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.
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I really work. I like feeling that I've nailed it, and we've got the picture.
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What is writing but an expression of my own life?
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The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
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It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
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As usual, I'm overstating the case to knock a few neurons loose, but the truth is usually somewhere in the muddle, uh, middle.
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Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replaces them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words.
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'It must be remembered that Dupach is more than half Negro, and due to the peculiar mentality of this Race, they seem unable to rise to prominence without losing their equilibrium.'
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The first one I hit pretty flush with one hand - went about 200 yards. And the second one I shanked, and it rolled into a crater about 40 yards away.
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I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving.
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We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls... I won.
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I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me.
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To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.
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I was naughty. I wasn't bad. Bad is hurting people, doing evil. Naughty is not hurting anyone. Naughty is being amusing.
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Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.
