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Michael Spence Quotes

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 7, 1943

Topics

Learning Father Time Parenting You

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.

Work Growing Up Compromise Think Up

When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.

You Actor Narcissism Own Your

Humans had run barefoot for millennia, and some still preferred doing so in the modern Stone Age of the mid-20th century, when the handful of people running for exercise often wore whatever they happened to have on at the moment of inspiration.

Age Moment People Doing Exercise

I have to say... Justine Bateman may be the most underrated sitcom actress ever.

Say May Underrated Actress Most

I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Life Family Water Wind Result Way

I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.

Red People Society Think Dirty Kind

I wish I could help everyone to understand this one simple fact: we believe in God because of things we know with our heart and mind, not because of things we do not know. Our spiritual experiences are sometimes too sacred to explain in worldly terms, but that doesn't mean they are not real.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God Heart Simple Spiritual Mind

Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.

Donald E. Westlake

New York Looking New Something Once

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

Christian Lacroix

Generation House Paris Dressed Out

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

Chuck Palahniuk

Children Friends Envy Own Things

I think most people have experienced that at some point: being on one end or the other of a super-unbalanced relationship.

Relationship People Think End Point

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

Age Time Day Think You Every Day

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