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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
Your trash can is full of energy bar wrappers." "You were looking through my trash?
This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.
No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high'.
I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.
W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and fund-raising efforts of capitalist and Tuskegee University founder, Booker T. Washington.
Conservatives should single-mindedly privilege marriage as the solution to poverty and the best path for raising successful children, and not rationalize the real of destructive cultural change.
It was one of the things that used to be on my rider when I would do my shows. I would always ask for a Klondike bar.
My mum did really well raising me and my brother by herself. I know it was a struggle, and even from a young age, when I was boxing, it was always to make my mother proud.
Raising your hand when you're not sure you have the right answer helps you take risks with your ideas and put yourself out there.
When they talk about raising your taxes, I think raise the taxes on some of these countries that are taking advantage of the United States.
I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.
I realize now what a great job my wife Michelle did, not only in raising our children, Melissa, Amy, Dustin, and Jenna, but in taking care of me.
Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack.
You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'
I believe very firmly that we can get to balanced budgets without raising taxes and without cutting transfers to the provinces or to individuals.
Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.
Usually, something that is fairly expected is already factored in. I also think that you have to think that America is raising rates because the economy is getting stronger.
Raising the minimum wage would be a positive step in reducing poverty, the humiliation of living in poverty, and dependence on public assistance.
A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.
My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.
I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.
Keeping a bar clean is basic in this business. Having a staff that speaks adequate English is basic.
The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.
There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.
Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.
Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base;
Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence,
Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh
When morning shines upon it.
I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.
My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.
Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.
The more games you get, the more confidence you gain. I started to set the bar high for myself.
The limitations and parameters of a band is something I've always enjoyed: so many creative people coming together and raising the music to places we'd never get on our own.
Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.
A film that I love is 'Raising Arizona' and that's funny but it's quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. I'd love to do something like that. Who knows?
To be in the dance bar you have to be young, good looking, able to dance, and comfortable talking to people.
There's no one right way to be a person, we're all just doing our best. So the same thing should apply to parenting and raising your children and the things you go through.
I was still making movies so it wasn't as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn't find distributors.
When I started InMobi, I was on the road raising funds. I faced 20 rejections. But when I got the funds, they came from best venture capitalists.
I grew up Catholic and still feel a lot of Catholic guilt. But my wife is not religious so we're not raising our daughters religiously.
I love Bill Belichick. He is a great coach, great man - raising men to do the right thing and win championships in this league.
I don't want to be partisan here. But please, tell me how you get out of a business recession by raising business taxes and regulations?
I've always had the dream of going to New Zealand and meeting a lovely New Zealander in a bar.
I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful leader.
In a bar mitzvah, you do the candle-lighting ceremony with the cake. Every birthday, the cake is the big moment.
Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.
We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who are terrified of silence, of being alone with their own thoughts.
The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children
A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.
I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.
My uncle, he's a big DJ out here in L.A. His name is DJ Tee; he's got a bar in Westchester.
My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.
We're always going for it and trying to raise the bar and achieve more and more and just be as creative as we can.
Khap Panchayats are a group of people who come together. There is no bar on people to assemble in this country.
Weirdly enough - if I make enough money one day - I want to open a board game bar.
My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.
My children grew up with one Western parent. My husband doesn't believe in raising his voice with the kids and we don't spank. They were really raised in a half-Asian family.
The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.
By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself!
We have become stronger economically; we have been successfully resolving the social problems, raising the level of living - the standards of living - of the population.
