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zoos kids men
Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me. Rodney Dangerfield
zoos believe thinking
...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal. Mark Haddon
zoos tea watches
[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch. Princess Margaret
zoos stupid mad
It is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you don't get mad at a monkey when he throws poop at you at the zoo... What does get me angry is the ridiculous, disingenuous defending of the poop-throwing monkey. Jon Stewart
zoos real nice
Most people are really nice but some stare, like you're some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real feelings. Emma Watson
zoos kids littles
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second. John Irving
zoos opportunity animal
The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal's gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond. John Berger
zoos culture break-out
Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out. Edward T. Hall
zoos people looks
A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at. David Sedaris
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
children coming few helping kids program reading shelter
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
children city stop streets teach throwing
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
children compared cost couple elderly family financial four good home keeping minimal replace stay town
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.
children fit funny kid life
He just kind of fit in, personality wise. He was funny, happy. Chandler was the kind of kid that the children always wanted around. He just was kind of the life of the party.
children school thinks
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
children discovered information passing people
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
children coming comparison content kids learning memorize results rote test whatever whether
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.
children inclined less standing
If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.
mirrors taste television
For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it. Russell Lynes
mirrors saws earth
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me. Jorge Luis Borges
mirrors islands focus
The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood. Jonathan Raban
mirrors looks knows
You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is. John Green
mirrors worry actors
The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation. Moby
mirrors people focus
I've always enjoyed people studying themselves in the mirror, and I also enjoy those 'walk and feel bad' shots. I like anything that isolates people and focuses them on themselves, or makes us focus on their faces as they're going through something. Paul Feig
mirrors moments status-quo
Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened. Marshall McLuhan
mirrors rearview-mirror
We go forward looking in the rearview mirror.
mirrors camouflage strategy
She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself. Pat Conroy