Maria Montessori Quotes
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.
Quotes to Explore
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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People want you to fail.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
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Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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Russia has its heart divided between its Slav soul and its disgust for Milosevic's behavior.
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Me showing my emotions... it's not a sign of weakness; it's a sign of passion.
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Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.
