Papapetrou Polixeni Quotes

#1. Sometimes I think that I stay young and in touch with contemporary culture because of my children's interests. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by their talent and vibrancy.

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#2. I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.

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#3. I had this vision of the two of us holding hands or getting into some light petting behind shower curtains or up in the fencing aisle or some shit.

Susan Juby

#4. I think that there comes a point in the life of every young person to break away from the intimacy that they share with their parents. It is not to say that the intimacy is lost, but that it needs to change as children forge an autonomous identity and make their way into the adult world.

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#5. Alaythia smiled sympathetically. "The Coast of the Dead. Sounds lovely, doesn't it?"
Simon tried to smile back. "Someone in a good mood named that place.

Jason Hightman

#6. Science have imagination, most people doubt about that. This word "Doubt" makes a lot of stuff interesting.

Deyth Banger

#7. In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.

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#8. God ordained your family and your homeschool. It was His idea. You answer to God alone. Really.

Jamerrill Stewart

#9. There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.

John Green

#10. But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even a third or fifth part, he is not a brother, but a harsh tyrant, a rude savage, nay, more, an insatiable beast that would devour the whole sweet banquet with his own gaping mouth.

Gregory Of Nyssa

#11. I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.

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#12. Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964.

Jerry Seinfeld

#13. As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

Rosemary Mahoney

#14. We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

Atul Gawande

#15. There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

Charles Kennedy

#16. You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of enjoying.

W. Somerset Maugham

#17. Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

Stephen King

#18. The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.

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#19. When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.

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#20. I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

Hedy Lamarr

#21. I love young people because they are always looking ahead, and older people because they can look back; and both make sense of the world so economically. You can learn so much from the wisdom of the young and the old. I'm just in between!

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#22. I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, 'Don't be afraid.' People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.

Stephen Moyer