Austan Goolsbee Quotes
What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.Austan Goolsbee
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
P. L. Travers -
I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.
Flume -
I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
Naveen Jain -
Hope is not a matter of age.
Abbe Pierre -
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
Xavier Becerra -
I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
Rachel Ward
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I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.
Maddie Ziegler -
Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
Ian Somerhalder -
'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.
Kate Grenville -
All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
Laura Linney -
I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
Nancy Gibbs -
Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
Florence Henderson
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The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.
Jack Zipes -
I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.
Karolyn Grimes -
I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
Sam Rockwell -
I love holidaying with the kids after working hard, it is amazing.
Mahesh Babu -
As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.
Eddie Marsan -
I keep fit by running after my three boys all day.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.
Cherie Blair -
If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.
David Hasselhoff -
In a lot of African music, the singers are just singing whatever they feel at the time - because the instrumentation is repetitive, they can come and go as they please. That's how we approach it. Not verse-chorus-verse.
Avey Tare Animal Collective -
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln -
Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.
Eve Ensler -
What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.
Austan Goolsbee