Being Spoiled Quotes

• Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

  Thomas Bray

  Appreciation, Children, Parenting

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• A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Humor, Talking, Fool

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• A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

  Robertson Davies

  Childhood, Belief, Spoiled

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

  Oscar Wilde

  Selfish, People, Secret

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

  Meryl Streep

  Wisdom, Women, Self Reliance

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• I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged.

  Petra Stunt

  Differences, Realizing, Spoiled

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• I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day.

  Katie Holmes

  Vanilla, Spoiled, Lattes

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• It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Birthday, People, Age

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• Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

  James Cagney

  Children, Kids, People

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• My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Dad, People, World

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• The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Fighting, Vanity, Quality

  Eddie Rickenbacker (2012). “Fighting the Flying Circus”, p.48, Tales End Press

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• But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.

  Tami Hoag

  Strong, Independent, Long

  Tami Hoag (2002). “Dark Horse”, p.34, Bantam

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• I don't like spoilers. I don't like things being spoiled.

  Melissa McBride

  Spoiled, Spoilers

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• The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored. The disease of our age is this boredom and a good photographer must successfully combat it. The only way to do this is by invention - by surprise.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Boredom, Age, Quality

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• I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

  Adam Sandler

  Sleep, Kids, Thinking

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• It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.

  Denene Millner

  Baby, Sleep, Kids

  Denene Millner (2017). “My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children”, p.32, Agate Publishing

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• The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there.

  Adam Sandler

  Children, Sleep, Kids

  "DUB Q&A: Adam Sandler". Press conference, www.dubmagazine.com. June 9, 2010.

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• And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be spoiled either by his successes or by the generous congratulations of his comrades. If he were capable of being spoiled he would not have had the character to have won continuous victories, for the smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Self-distrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Congratulations, Character, Fighting

  Eddie Rickenbacker (2012). “Fighting the Flying Circus”, p.48, Tales End Press

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• I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said.

  Holly Black

  Scared, Spoiled, Said

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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