Haim Ginott Quotes
Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.
Quotes to Explore
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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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 do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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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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When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.
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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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It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.
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I love Brian De Palma.
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I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.
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If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
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Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.
