"I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Simon Baker

#Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
“My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.”
“I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.”
“There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak, snap like this one did. That's another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.”
“We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.”
“As fleeting commitments, diets often fail. Thinking of dietary choices as part of who you are...can give them real staying power”
“We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and what is merely cultural scrap. In such a society, we don't have the experience of contemplative space, of the time or mood to engage a book of poetry or even read a novel. Who can achieve the unconscious-conscious state of the reader when everything is stimulation, everything is movement and information?”
“Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.”

Source : Gary Soto (1992). “Neighborhood Odes”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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