Hafez Quotes
There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.
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I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.
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When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.
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I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
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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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My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
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I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.
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My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
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I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.
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The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.
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If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier.
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There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
