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

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. – Maurice Sendak

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Happiness
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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And theres no doubt about that. We just dont like to think about it. Certainly the men dont like to think about it. – Maurice Sendak

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Women
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What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is. – Maurice Sendak

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respect
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Money
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. – Douglas Adams

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If you can count your money, you dont have a billion dollars. – J. Paul Getty

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Money

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it. – Kin Hubbard

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Money

Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed. – Craig Bruce

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Money

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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. – Carl Friedrich Gauss

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The only people that should vote should be legal. – Pam Bondi

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Tennis was always sort of a – a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didnt want to see it for myself but I certainly didnt want millions of people to see it. – Andre Agassi

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Speaking of Twitter, I dont even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app! – Diablo Cody

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