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children finds himself useless
I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes. Jason Statham
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Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot. Kerry Nelson
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I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. Britt Ekland
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Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.
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All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences. Tony Buzan
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It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance. Sugata Mitra
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In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.
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If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.
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There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need. Ann Veneman
years because-i-can filing
My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.
years track done
I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.
years people twenties
Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you. Robbie Coltraine
years numbers together
Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose. Rob Sheffield
years trying way
The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed. Rob Chapman
years league black
They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary. Rob Halford
years complaining matter
If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend. Richard P. Feynman
years age earth
All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years. Richard Dawkins
years president might
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know. Russell Baker
adults truth-is born
The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential. Yehuda Berg
adults may facts
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense. David Foster Wallace
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Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense. Neil Gaiman
adults intimidated
I'm generally intimidated by adults. Mayim Bialik
adults environment missions
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. Maria Montessori
adults kind anarchist
I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16. Mark Leyner
adults patient language
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore. Evelyn Waugh
adults
Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Jeanette Winterson
adults students dangerous
The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously. Georges Pompidou