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PAUL WEYRICH The vast majority of parents work hard at making sure (their children) get an education. There are s... MARY TIEDE WILHELMUS When television producers say it is the parents' obligation to keep children away from the tube, the... GREGG EASTERBROOK In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of che... DANIEL BOULUD I did have a few parents who were a little mad when I told their children to not stick their fingers... SARA WHITE The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this... CAITLIN FITZGERALD SAUL WILLIAMS DEYTH BANGER This is the worst I have seen from an operations perspective. You almost have to rebuild the city. I... HOSSEIN ESLAMBOLCHI I have compassion for Susan and I have to come from a caring place when I hear that. DANIEL HOROWITZ This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy ... CARROLL QUIGLEY MARK HELPRIN It's not just our interest in giving children quality nutrition because they deserve it. For childre... DELPHINE DOUGLASS Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lin... KUNAL NAYYAR DEBI THOMAS I think of myself as an Olympian. I have had a dream since I was a very small child. And because I h... DANIELLE DE NIESE To be an Olympian - not many people can say that. But first of all, I've got to make the team, a... SONNY BILL WILLIAMS DANIEL TAMMET JAMES NEWMAN It makes almost no sense to come into a department and ignore the people who have the most experienc... DOUGLAS KMIEC DENZEL WASHINGTON DENZEL WASHINGTON It is clear that parents of children attending government-owned schools in Colorado cannot rely on s... BOB SCHAFFER SONYA HARTNETT Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality. DAN WEBSTER Of all hands in the world, it was not the hand that I wanted or dreamed of touching, ... We, the sol... YITZHAK RABIN SAMUEL BECKETT What seems more likely is that the markets, having enjoyed an almost uninterrupted rally since last ... ALAN WILLIAMSON DAVID LIVINGSTONE ELIZABETH BERG When it comes to police officers, I have concerns about the training that they receive. This whole n... ERIC HOLDER To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children fr... MARK SANFORD SHIV KHERA KIMORA LEE SIMMONS If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like... CARLTON CUSE It's a great honor to know that someone in the profession has the opinion that my work deserves an a... JAY JONES By acquiring Costa Rican gaming operations, giant European firms now have a platform from which to l... 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PRESCOTT EMMELINE PANKHURST STOCKWELL DAY Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w... KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE It seems that you guys have an even more antagonistic relationship on the show this year. NANCY O'DELL The positive energy and the overall tone of this event are almost euphoric, ... To have 2,400 people... ANDREW MORRIS One of the biggest problems I see these days is when the children feel they have a right to an inher... FRANK DEGEN Parents in China are very strict with their children. They say you should do this, you shouldn't do ... ZHANG JIE More and more urban families are employing children to work in their homes. It is disappointing that... BRIAN HEIDEL To be part of something special, to be an Olympian and have the chance to win a medal - it's an ... SONNY BILL WILLIAMS DANIEL WEBSTER Our research found that students who owned an alcohol-branded item were significantly more likely to... DR. AUDEN MCCLURE SHOLEM ASCH Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children ... SIMON BARON-COHEN JOHN GREEN I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the w... SHAHID KAPOOR When I wanted to do this job it was for making movies not for the glitter. Of course with the fame I... AUDREY TAUTOU JOHN EDWARDS Is there apathy? At times, maybe. I think an awful lot of it comes down to priority of time, ... We'... DAN MONTGOMERY TED TURNER NEWT GINGRICH This is a resounding victory for thousands of small-business owners across the country who for decad... DAN DANNER FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always come... ERIC WHITACRE JOAQUIN PHOENIX Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes fro... 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It is regarded as axiomatic that parents have more power then children. This is an inescapable biolo... 
I feel more confident and like I have more to say. I feel like I'm working more than ever, not j... 
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down... 
I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the child... 
Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photogr... 
The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you. 
Why be greedy when you can have it all. 
Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more lo... 
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was you... 
Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10... 
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by... 
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. 
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine. 
Wrong?
Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants h... 
Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence. 
One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an ... 
We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from ou... 
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it. 
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it. 
More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children.... 
I was mad of course and still am, but harmless, I passed for harmless, that's a good one. Not of cou... 
Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their... 
I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children... 
Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rat... 
My girls and I regularly go through their rooms to find clothes and toys to donate to charities. I f... 
The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and ... 
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is ... 
Fewer heterosexuals feel legally compelled to officially marry and more children are born outside of... 
Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents f... 
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. 
I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying tr... 
I know that John Kerry will make this country stronger and more secure for my children and for your ... 
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. 
[On the Supreme Court striking down a law barring] indecent ... I think we're better to have a crash... 
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say ''thus it shall be!'', it is they who... 
Because of all the scenes of him writing songs, it wouldn't work to have me singing the lines while ... 
I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approa... 
Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on th... 
A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder... 
At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succ... 
Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and m... 
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considere... 
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both. 
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we... 
My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natu... 
After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short... 
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating th... 
Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but ... 
The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience. 
When the enemy has no face, society will invent one. 
Ah, Macy Joleen O'James, I love you. More than I ever knew it was possible to love someone. I want t... 
She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference. 
So that’s your sister?” asks Dee in a quiet voice.
We all go through the same things - it's just a different kind of the same thing 
You're only has good as your last haircut. 
One person's constant is another person's variable. 
Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it gro... 
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon... 
Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion. 
Always think of your customers as suppliers first. Work closely with them, so they can supply you wi... 
You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special th... 
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of cou... 
I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human bei...