Quotes with child-like

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  • William Hazlitt General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Britt Ekland Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Al Gore George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • George Foreman George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be.'' Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.
    George Foreman
    American professional boxer (1949 - )
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  • Erica Jong German toilets are really the key to the horrors of the Third Reich. People who can build toilets like this are capable of anything.
    Fear of Flying
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Carla Bley Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
    Carla Bley
    American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936 - )
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  • Denis Waitley Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Claude D. Pepper Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep peddling, you'll fall.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Billy Bob Thornton Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.
    Billy Bob Thornton
    American actor, writer, and musician (1955 - )
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  • Beth Ditto Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • John Ruskin Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • B. F. Skinner Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Norman Mailer Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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