Quote by Maurice Sendak
I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature with

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didnt want to be a child. – Maurice Sendak

Other quotes by Maurice Sendak

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future… they may well be… I will be dead. – Maurice Sendak

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Future
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Ive convinced myself – I hope Im right – that children despair of you if you dont tell them the truth. – Maurice Sendak

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Hope
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The inequalities are greater now than in 92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the equal level very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately. – Jonathan Kozol

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They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands. – Carter G. Woodson

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Money

Ive got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. Ive got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I dont spend too much at all. – Justin Bieber

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Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money. – Donald Trump

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We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love. – Whitney Moore, Jr.

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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people. – Ibrahim Babangida

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