Quotes with child-like

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  • Maria Montessori The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Augustus William Hare The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Caitlin Moran The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Bruce Coville The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Bill Hader The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Bobby Flay The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bobby Flay The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • George Washington The freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
    From George Washington to Officers of the Army, 15-03-1783
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Bryce Harper The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Napoleon The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • James Baldwin The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bruce Lee The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big possibilities. Like the song says, ''We've just begun.''
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Wallace Stevens The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bob Geldof The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Orwell The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Blaine Lee The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
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  • Stanley Kubrick The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
    Stanley Kubrick
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1928 - 1999)
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  • Frederic Raphael The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?
    Frederic Raphael
    American screenwriter, biographer and writer (1931 - )
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