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"When I was a child and I was upset about something, my mother was not capable of containing that emotion, of letting me be upset but reassuring me, of just being with me in a calming way. She always got in a flap, so I not only had my own baby panics, fears and terrors to deal with, but I had to cope with hers, too. Eventually I taught myself to remain calm when I was panicked, in order not to upset her. In a way, she had managed to put me in charge of her. At 18 months old, I was doing the parenting."

- John Cleese

All these reports have something to contribute, ... Keep in mind that many vendors use extracts from the reports containing only the pieces you want to see.

- Brian Austin Green

What`s the sacrifice that`s being asked of people who make more than $1 million per year? It`s the energy they have to expend opening the envelopes containing their tax cuts."

- Bill Clinton

It`s important that we think about fresh poultry containing potentially harmful bacteria.

- Michael Doyle

It`s politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

- Edward Bond

I have visited forty-eight different tribes, the greater part of which I found speaking different languages, and containing in all 400,000 souls.

- Alex Lenahan

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.

- Alexis Waggoner

The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea`s nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.

- Andrew Stotz

If the tobacco officials had really changed, ... they would not have waited until Minnesota secured a court order to mandate the documents` release, and if tobacco officials had really changed, they would not perpetuate their cover-up by continuing to block our efforts to uncover 39,000 documents containing their deepest, darkest secrets.

- Angelos Anastasiou

I have a trunk containing continents.

- Anne Hodkin

With development, you get impervious surfaces like pavement and roofs of houses, ... This really relates to water quality because it increases the speed in which surface water (containing sediment) runs off and gets into the waterways.

- Arthur Calwell

In the first half they did a great job containing us and we made a couple adjustments at halftime. We would get the quarterback (going) and get Weinstein outside a little bit and that kind of helped us.

- Barbara Simpson

Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing "rogue states," opposing "Islamic fundamentalism," or containing China.

- Barrin Simpson