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I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

~David Icke

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I believe that those closest to the children should be making the decisions about how funds should be spent, what the curriculum should look like, and what's the best way to help our students.

~David Ige

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My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.

~David Lee

Topics: Born Brought Children City Come Electrical Elementary Elementary School Engineer England Father Had Immigrants Jewish Late Mother New New York New York City Parents School School Teacher States Teacher Trained United United States Up Were Who York

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Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

~David Lodge

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Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that covenant. America must reduce its federal spending and accumulation of debt for the sake of generations to come.

~David Malpass

Topics: Accumulate America Better Breaking Children Come Covenant Debt Every Faith Federal Generation Generations Inherited Leave Must Obligation Our Position Reduce Representatives Sake Spending Than Washington

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The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic.

~David Miliband

Topics: About Assumptions Bad Britain Children Class Comfortable Competitive Decade Had Less Middle Middle Class Much Prospects Smaller Sort Ten Then Ways Were 1970S

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Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Because Children Experience Imaginations Many Natural Perhaps Submission Think I Think

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I gave up planning when our children were born, when I had three children to feed and a roof to keep over our head and all of that. Early in my career, I said I would never do television at all; then I wound up doing nothing but television for 10 years when I did 'St. Elsewhere' and all those TV movies.

~David Morse

Topics: Born Career Children Did Doing Early Elsewhere Feed Gave Had Head Keep Movies Never Nothing Our Over Planning Roof Said Television Then Those Three Tv Up Were Would Wound Years

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And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.

~David Neeleman

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For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

~David Nicholls

Topics: About Best Best Part Books Childhood Children Cinema Classics Encouraged Fiction Four History Horror Less Library Little Local Me Natural Natural History Parents Part Point Read Rubber Sci-Fi Stool Three Thrillers Times Visited Week Where

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