Ayelet Waldman Quotes

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

Ayelet Waldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: December 11, 1964

Topics

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Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national groups or ethnic-national groups. They have the Druses. Even the two Moslem sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, are apart. Then they have the armed groups. Everybody's got a private army.

Menachem Begin

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I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do.

Megan Smith

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Directing is not a job. It's more like a career. Which is great!

Michael Bay

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Cove is essentially a collaboration, coordination and communication tool for the administration of organizations and communities, from the Stanford Graduate School of Business Entrepreneurship Club to church groups and schools.

Ruchi Sanghvi

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Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasn't always translated to the streets.

Jason Wu

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I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

Jonny Greenwood

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In order to encourage private investors to pursue long-term, responsible projects, governments need to promote consistent policies and frameworks.

Jose Angel Gurria

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Teaching was an incredible experience, and I miss it a lot, but I also love the job I have now.

Chloe Benjamin

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Jimmy Garner is a very gracious guy, as he was then and he is still today.

Tom Atkins

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The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Norman O. Brown

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I'm tired of Italian gangsters. Not that I don't watch 'The Godfather' every morning when I get up and 'Goodfellas' when I go to sleep at night. But I've just always been fascinated by Russia as a country, by the Russian personality. And now Russia is literally a gangster nation.

Richard Belzer

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Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

Grover Cleveland

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