"And that is true in 85 percent of kids; it's kids who live in old, dilapidated, mostly urban housing. But that still leaves 15 percent of the cases that occur in middle- or upper-class families, usually associated with home renovations. People are sanding paint, removing banisters, cleaning up windowsills, and they don't realize that they're spewing lead dust around in the house. And then the kids get it."

-- Deirdre Imus

#Kids Quotes #Home Quotes #Class Quotes

“Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.”

Source : Eminent Victorians preface (1918)
“At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person.”

Source : "Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business". Book by Becky Sheetz-Runkle, December 18, 2010.
“The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.”

Source : "The Madoff Tapes". Interview with Steve Fishman, nymag.com. February 27, 2011.
“Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that we are all vulnerable, even in the heartland. I was in college at Rice University in 1995. All of us remember exactly where we were that day, and we will never forget the 168 people who were killed. Terrorism is evil, yet the incredible response to tragedies like we experienced in Oklahoma 20 years ago serve to highlight the strength, resolve, and resiliency of the American people to the world.”
“Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.”
“I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mont Blanc; but the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land. Beautiful as a flower to those who hate it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate it, it is the symbol of the power and glory, and the honor, of fifty million Americans.”
“It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide.”
“I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless.”

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