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Until I read Neill's book, 'Summerhill,' I thought there were only two ways to bring up children, either with authoritarian discipline or with permissiveness. Either way, hopefully, applied with love. Now I know there is a third way: teaching a child self*regulation, not by coercion or by abandoning discipline, but by freedom with responsibility.
- Orson Bean
#Children
#Freedom
#Love
#Responsibility
Old people come up to me and say, 'Are you still alive? I used to watch you on 'To Tell The Truth' when I was a kid.'
- Orson Bean
#Alive
#Me
#Old
#People
#Truth
I didn't want to be famous for its own sake. I wanted to be famous so as to be happy.
- Orson Bean
#Be Happy
#Famous
#Happy
#Own
#Want
I grew up on Harvard Square and I watched 50-year old men walking around with green book bags slung over their shoulders going for their fourth PhD, never having left the world of academia to alleged reality.
- Orson Bean
#Green
#Men
#Reality
#Walking
#World
San Francisco is a city; L.A. is a collection of suburbs that have very little in common with one another.
- Orson Bean
#City
#Collection
#Common
#Little
#Very
It's never been written about, but before the blacklist of Dalton Trumbo and the Hollywood Ten, there was a de facto blacklist by Communists in the movie industry, and there were a lot of them.
- Orson Bean
#About
#Before
#Industry
#Never
#Ten
I don't spend my life making money to spend tomorrow, or to acquire possessions.
- Orson Bean
#Life
#Making Money
#Money
#Tomorrow
God is being siphoned out of the public arena. People don't even say God bless you when you sneeze anymore. I want to be able to lay a Merry Christmas on someone without its feeling like a political statement.
- Orson Bean
#Christmas
#God
#People
#Political
#Say
I am dedicated to giving my kids the memory of happy parents. So I spend a lot of time with them. We really know each other. If they should decide later on that they hate me, at least they'll know who they're hating.
- Orson Bean
#Hate
#I Am
#Me
#Memory
#Time
Miracles aren't necessarily good for everyone. The parting of the Red Sea, great for the Jews, not so hot for the Egyptian soldiers.
- Orson Bean
#Good
#Great
#Hot
#Miracles
#Sea
The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.
- Orson Bean
#Change
#Fifties
#Nineteen
#Time
I think God loves to hear little kids laugh at fart jokes. He didn't just make sunsets and bluebirds, He made hot babes. And dirty old men like me. That's the modest message I've set out to tell the world: you don't have to be Ned Flanders to be a Christian.
- Orson Bean
#God
#Hot
#Me
#Men
#World
I make more than a handsome living doing voices for commercials; I hear myself all day on the tube.
- Orson Bean
#Day
#Doing
#Handsome
#Living
#Myself
I used to picture myself as the old guy eating the Early Bird Specials in the mall.
- Orson Bean
#Bird
#Eating
#Myself
#Old
#Picture
Strange are the ways of human behavior.
- Orson Bean
#Behavior
#Human Behavior
#Human
#Strange
I think people are afraid to be original.
- Orson Bean
#Afraid
#Be Original
#People
#Think
Being happy is a revolutionary act; I think it spreads, like ripples in a pond.
- Orson Bean
#Act
#Being
#Happy
#Pond
#Think
A lot of people didn't know I was doing Broadway. They thought I was one of those guys who was famous for being famous. I was the one who sat next to Charles Nelson Reilly and said funny things.
- Orson Bean
#Doing
#Famous
#Funny
#Know
#People
I'm thankful I've learned to embrace insecurity, not just to tolerate it. Life is more fun that way, and I'm thankful for that, too.
- Orson Bean
#Fun
#Insecurity
#Life
#Thankful
#Way
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