Benjamin Spock Quotes
People have said, 'You've turned your back on pediatrics.' I said, 'No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.'Benjamin Spock
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
Raf Simons -
How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
Valerie Plame -
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
Salman Rushdie -
If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
Jack Davenport -
The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
Damien Hirst
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
Rafael Nadal -
It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
Carl Spitteler -
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Samuel Lover -
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
Maj Sjowall -
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
Larry Page
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
Taylor Lautner -
I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
Kate Bosworth -
I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
Florentijn Hofman -
One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
Ban Ki-moon -
Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
Nathaniel Philbrick -
I can't cook to save my life.
Vidya Balan
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I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.
Ashley Greene -
People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.
Philip Treacy -
The 'gatekeepers' became a term of revile. But when you think about the flow of information, I personally value immensely the calibration a news organ, whether it's on the web or in print, brings to the floodwaters of information. I haven't the time to read all the dispatches of the Associated Press, for example. It's fantastic what they put out, it's extremely good, from all over the world. I like when someone acts as a filter.
Harold Evans -
'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me.
Lee Daniels -
People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It's a story.
Billie Eilish -
People have said, 'You've turned your back on pediatrics.' I said, 'No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.'
Benjamin Spock