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William Zinsser Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work.
lonely fun writing
William Zinsser Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.
lonely loneliness destiny
Woodrow Wilson There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.
lonely loneliness book
William Wordsworth Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.
lonely nature rivers
William Wordsworth I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.
lonely sleep sky
William Wordsworth The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
lonely nature spring
William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
lonely silly america
William Saroyan What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
children finds himself useless
Jason Statham 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.
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Kerry Nelson 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.
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Britt Ekland I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.
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John Romano 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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Tony Buzan All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.
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Sugata Mitra 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.
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Sugata Mitra 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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Sugata Mitra 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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Ann Veneman There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.
confused homer
Grady Sizemore I was confused for a second. I didn't know what was going on, ... If they were going to give me a choice, I was going to take the homer over the double.
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Bobbie Williams I was confused and all the material I read got me more confused. With all the things I got in the mail, it was hard to decide.
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Leonard Hamilton I don't even know why I'm sitting here in fifth place in the ACC having to defend anything. I'm really confused about that. Matter of fact, I think we need six or seven teams.
confused mess wisdom
Robert Belcher I don't know what was the wisdom in that decision. It confused the mess out of everybody.
confused age force
Woodrow Wilson We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction
confused sleep eye
Sarah Ban Breathnach A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.
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Valerie June I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.
confused mean unique
Ugo Betti When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.
confused mean independent
Robert Redford Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.