Faye Wattleton Quotes
'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.
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We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
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I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to read until I was a lot older, and I was behind in my classes; it was such a challenge.
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I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
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I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.
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'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.
