Magnus Scheving Quotes

The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.

Magnus Scheving

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: icelander
  • Birth: November 10, 1964

Topics

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On one hand, I can say, you know, I had many family members - I had many people in my extended family who left right after Katrina, who relocated to different cities, right? Houston, Atlanta. Right? Most of them have come back.

Jesmyn Ward

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I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

John Bright

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The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

John F. Kennedy

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I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on a tour bus. You're in a different town every night; as a kid, you're trying to make friends fast. You try to be funny.

Trevor Moore

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We are the hero of our own story.

Mary McCarthy

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He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums instead of Ravel.

Miles Davis

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There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.

Jon Katz

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The only real solution is comprehensive immigration reform that secures our borders and provides a path to legal status for non-felons who are here without proper legal documentation.

Jon Ossoff

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In a great many stories that deal with time travel, there's usually somebody who knows how time travel works. They lay out the rules.

Diana Gabaldon

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We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

Deborah Tannen

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Ms. Rice was a bad national security adviser and a bad secretary of state. She was on the wrong side of some of the administration's biggest internal policy fights. She had a tendency to flip-flop when it came to the president's core priorities, and her political misjudgment more than once cost Mr. Bush dearly.

Bret Stephens

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Norm Lewis, who plays Jake in 'Side Show,' and I had a song together in 'Tommy,' and I understudied Mrs. Walker.

Alice Ripley

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