R. D. Laing Quotes
A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university … This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They did things that I never expected out of them that left me heart-broken. It was during these rough patches in life that they left me alone. I know now that it was only my position that they were interested in.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men.'
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Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.
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Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures.
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A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university … This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.
