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«Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you»
Author: Gilda Radner (Actress, Comedian) | About: Children | Keywords: adopted
«As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.»
«Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.»
«By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.»
«Chandler: Oh my God. I just told a kid he was adopted! Pheobe: That's not so bad, he was gonna find out anyway. Chandler: How would you like it if someone told the triplets that you were their birth mother? >Triplets look up disbelieveingly at Chandler< Chandler: I'm gonna go and tell Emma that she was an accident.»
Author: Friends | Keywords: accident, adopted, kid, look up, Oh My
«It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words»
«Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives»
«Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself»
«Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.»
«From the time of our birth till the time this body perishes, we are making many attempts to earn money and acquire food. In this process of amassing wealth, we are adopting means and methods which are adopted also by the birds and animals.»

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