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My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In a way, my life belongs to her. When I was a child, she complained that I was anorexic, so they sent me to places to get me to eat. When I look at pictures of myself, I was just a normal-looking child. It was her fantasy.

~Chantal Akerman

Topics: Anorexic Belongs Child Different Eat Fantasy Friends Get Her Just Life Look Me Mother Mothers My Life Myself Never Pictures Places Sent Separate She Totally Way Would

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Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

~Chantal Kreviazuk

Topics: Actually Backup Became Child First Gigs Got Lounge Making Making Money Money Music Out Singing Small Small Child Sought Studios Teen Weather Weddings Well

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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Child Contradictory Ecstasy Feelings Felt Heart Horror Life Small Small Child Two

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Laptops are important, but before you spend a million dollars per school providing one laptop per child... won't you please spend $5,000 per school equipping every classroom with a document camera?

~Charles Best

Topics: Before Camera Child Classroom Document Dollars Every Important Laptop Laptops Million Million Dollars Per Please Providing School Spend You

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I have often spoken about the importance of intentionality in philanthropy: that it has to stir the soul. This is true whether you are feeding the homeless, mentoring a child or working on climate change.

~Charles Bronfman

Topics: About Change Child Climate Climate Change Feeding Homeless Importance Mentoring Often Philanthropy Soul Spoken Stir True Whether Working You

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You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'Stop shouting,' 'Stop jumping around on the furniture.' But 'Stop showing off'? That's awful.

~Charles Dance

Topics: Around Awful Being Child Encourage Furniture Jumping Off Rude Say Should Shouting Show Show Off Showing Stop You

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Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

~Charles Dickens

Topics: Blush Child Childish Distorted Forth Gives Happy Image Man Old Our Own Pride Send State Title Together Ugly

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A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It's good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they're reinforcing patterns.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Amount Certain Certain Things Child Good Good Habits Habits Help How Huge Huge Amount Kids Learning Life Make Patterns Success Things Understand

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The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because all of your old routines go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new things.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Because Biggest Child Come Flexibility Go Habits Moment New New Things Old Our Out Routines Sell Shopping Suddenly Things Window You Your

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Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

~Charles Handy

Topics: Child Curriculum Education Every Individual Instead National Needed Really

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