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The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways.
Alison Gopnik
Parenting
You
Science
Smart
Babies
Baby
Books
Ways
Out
Tell
Thousands
Some
Mention
Smarter
Toys
Make
Because
Than
Flash
Einstein
Your
Largely
Thing
Cards
I was always taking garbage from around the house and making my own toys. I wasn't given a Wii or an Xbox or anything.
Ann Makosinski
Own
Garbage
My Own
Given
Taking
House
Toys
Around
Always
Making
Anything
The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
Anselm Kiefer
Me
Ruined
Project
Clear
Toys
Houses
Around
Buildings
Built
Did
Any
Childhood
Which
Reason
Bricks
Played
Honestly, from a very young age, before I had the language, really - anywhere that I encountered binary, whether it was in clothing or in toys or in media, it always made me uncomfortable.
Asia Kate Dillon
Me
Age
Language
Binary
Made
Before
Young
Honestly
Uncomfortable
Had
Toys
Always
Encountered
Very
Young Age
Clothing
Whether
Anywhere
Really
Media
We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.
Ban Ki-moon
Everything
Furniture
Global
Toys
Arms
Trade
Common
Means
Regulations
Standards
International
Tomatoes
I have a real weakness for Generation One Transformers. Only Generation One. I loved them as a kid, and I will, when I have the money, search occasionally for the toys that I could not afford but deeply desired as a child.
Ben Peek
Generation
Money
Will
Kid
Weakness
Only
Could
Toys
Occasionally
Real
Child
Afford
Loved
Transformers
Them
Search
Deeply
Desired
I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality.
Brian Sutton-Smith
Reality
Caricature
Adult
Toys
Understand
Trying
Children
Literal
Keep
Why
Imaginative
Phenomenon
One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind.
Brian Sutton-Smith
Great
Reflection
Mind
Imagination
Further
Responses
Kinds
Objects
Area
Fact
Through
Adult
Developed
Allowing
Toy
Toys
Sort
Where
Belief
Novelty
Activity
Play
Thinks
Imaginations
We lived in just a studio apartment with just a room and a bed that came out of the wall, and my mom couldn't afford even a Happy Meal. We ate Top Ramen. I had no toys, and I had, like, two shirts, a pair of jeans, and that was it. But I had my mom to myself, and I remember it being the coolest period of time. I loved it. I really loved it.
Brie Larson
Time
Myself
Mom
Happy
Remember
Meal
Top
Out
Ate
Had
Studio
Like
Period
Toys
Bed
Came
Shirts
Wall
Afford
Just
Being
Loved
Apartment
Room
Really
Jeans
Coolest
Even
Pair
Lived
Two
If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if crime is on the rise in Dallas, or if a company has a lot of recalled toys, transparency can spur change. Whenever public or private institutions have to answer to the public, their performance is likely to improve.
Cass Sunstein
Change
Quality
Crime
Air
Angeles
Rise
Performance
Particular
Institutions
Likely
Toys
Terrible
Unusually
Answer
Los
Los Angeles
Private
Lot
Spur
Improve
Expensive
Whenever
Public
Transparency
Company
Recalled
Dallas
University
One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such.
Chris Roberson
Me
Seventies
Characters
One Of The Things
About
Most
Toys
Without
Were
Sixties
Stories
Fascinates
Things
I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Buy
Freedom
Happy
Made
Parents
Difficult
Our
Books
Postwar
Had
Support
Toys
Were
Encouraged
Times
Childhood
Children
Interesting
Happy Childhood
Interesting Things
Us
Much
Who
Many
Things
Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.
Christina Hoff Sommers
Buy
Girl
Ideology
Would
Both
Toy
Toys
Boy
Boys And Girls
Sell
Want
Interested
Doubles
Companies
Profits
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
Christopher Lasch
Lie
Ownership
Appropriation
Possessions
Status
New
Toys
Child
Use
Appeal
Appetite
Desire
Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.
Claude Vorilhon
Age
Our
Those
Brought
Computers
Since
Toys
Obviously
Metal
Were
Been
Brain
Brains
Up
Five
Same
Quite
Six
Wooden
Children
Certainly
Who
Comparison
Whose
Playing
Robotic toys can be very interesting, but it is important that the toy not 'dictate' how the child should play with it. Rather, it should take its cues from the child and enhance, teach, and enrich the play experience. We incorporated some of these features into a robotic baby doll we built for Hasbro in 1999.
Colin Angle
Experience
Important
Baby
Enrich
Some
Rather
Features
Take
Toy
Toys
Robotic
Built
How
Doll
Dictate
Very
Child
Interesting
Should
Teach
Enhance
Play
Incorporated
Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.
Colin Quinn
You
Dangerous
Mind
Twitter
Those
Adult
Wrong
Masquerading
Toys
Person
Hands
Gets
I grew up as an only child, so inherently, most of my life was centered around me. My parents taught me to play well with others and to share my toys, but I was still an only child who didn't have to share my parent's attention with siblings. As great as my childhood was, I always wanted brothers and sisters.
Coy Bowles
Life
Great
Me
My Life
Parents
Others
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Parent
Only
Only Child
Share
Attention
Most
Toys
Well
Around
Always
Still
Up
Sisters
Child
Childhood
Taught
Wanted
Grew
Centered
Inherently
Who
Play
Sibling
I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.
Craig McCracken
Own
Characters
Collector
Geeky
Unbelievably
Toy
Toys
Your
Cool
When I was a kid, nobody in my family had a car. And I didn't have many toys. The only toys I had were the ones I would steal.
DMX
Family
Car
Kid
Would
Only
Steal
Had
Nobody
Toys
Were
Many
When you believe games can only be toys for kids and that you are successful at doing this, why would you look further and take risks exploring new directions?
David Cage
You
Risks
Believe
Further
Kids
Would
Only
Directions
Take
New
Look
Toys
Doing
Successful
Exploring
Games
Why
My biggest thing is that I would love in some form or fashion to return to the 'Marvel' universe, whether in television or a feature. I love the people at 'Marvel' and grew up reading the characters, and it was a real dream come true getting to play with the toys.
David Costabile
Love
Fashion
People
Reading
Universe
Television
Characters
Dream
Would
Some
Feature
Marvel
True
Come
Toys
Return
Real
Up
Getting
Form
Grew
Biggest
Whether
Biggest Thing
Play
Thing
Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays.
Devon Windsor
Love
Smile
Christmas
Buy
Thanksgiving
Giving
Year
Every
Sick
Back
Faces
Giving Back
Hospital
Putting
Toys
Around
Bunch
Louis
St. Louis
Children
Center
Holidays
Really
I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys' toys; I don't remember owning any dolls.
Diana Rigg
Jealous
Me
Remember
Manners
Nice
Older
Brother
Had
Adventurous
Toy
Toys
Because
Boy
Always
Aeroplanes
Dolls
Very
Than
Hugh
Any
Quite
Owning
Taught
Bigger
Older Brother
Tomboy
Playing
Imaginative
Every Pixar movie has its own rules that viewers have to accept, understand, and enjoy understanding. The voices of the toys in the 'Toy Story' films, for example, are never audible to humans.
Edwin Catmull
Example
Understanding
Own
Enjoy
Every
Films
Rules
Voices
Never
For Example
Toy
Toys
Accept
Understand
Movie
Pixar
Story
Viewers
Humans
I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
Florentijn Hofman
Love
Funny
Art
Simple
Big
Believe
Everyone
Books
Kind
Hopefully
Objects
Inspiration
Shapes
Clear
Toys
Make
Because
Ironic
Get
Bright
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