Benjamin Spock Quotes
As parents and teachers we need to bring up more of our children with generosity of spirit.
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A few weeks after my mom passed in November of 2013, I came back from an injury and entered the Egg Bowl in the second half against Ole Miss. I'll never forget the feeling when I walked back out on the field. As I walked into the Egg Bowl, the crowd stood up and clapped like they were enveloping me in a giant hug.
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I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
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I'd been on 'Buffy' - that is an amazing community, the Joss Whedon fans.
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One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
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Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
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Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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The sex you're trading up forWhat you hope is loveIs just another thing thatHe'll be careless of.But though there are caveats galore,You've only got to love him more - And you do;You really do.Even when it's all too clear.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation.
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I work with a bunch of producers on every album, but the difference for 'Evolver' was that I couldn't get any time with Kanye. I forget what he was doing at the time, but he was all over the place. We were never at the same city at the same time.
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As parents and teachers we need to bring up more of our children with generosity of spirit.
