“I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them.” PeopleKnowsWayHelpingActorsMy OwnCreativeBabyPerformancesBest WayCreative PeopleBest Performance Author:Ricky Schroder
“With Rodham, for instance, it has to work on an emotional level. It has to work on a character level. If it's only "Look, it has famous people," then it's a wax museum come to life and that's really boring. It's sort of like what they say about science fiction and horror where the really good ones, if you remove that element of it, it still has to work. That's the reason The Shining works or Rosemary's Baby or Blade Runner.” PeopleIfsLooksStillsReasonCharacterLevelsFictionEmotionalBabyHorrorElementsScience FictionShiningBoringInstanceRemoveMuseumsRunnersBladesRosemaryBlade Runner Author:James Ponsoldt
“Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he can become God? Yes. But the poor pig does not think so at the time. Which state is my individuality? When I was a baby sprawling on the floor trying to swallow my thumb? Was that the individuality I should be sorry to lose? Fifty years hence I shall look upon this present state and laugh, just as I now look upon the baby state. Which of these individualities shall I keep?” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldTryingYearsLooksDoeStatesLosesPoorLaughingBabyLosingSorryIndividualityLook UpFiftyPigsThumbs Book:Practical Vedanta Philosophy Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy
“When people talk about wanting to have children someday, what they really mean is that they want babies. Nobody wants an angry adolescent. Nobody wants an obnoxious seven-year-old trying to wear out dirty words they just learned in school that day. What they really want is cute, adorable babies who love you and need you. The bad stuff is just the price you agree to pay for having the good stuff.” PeopleWantNeedsTryingYearsMeanChildrenSchoolStuffPayLove YouBabyAgreeAngrySevenDirtyCuteSomedaySeven YearsNeed YouReally MeanAdorableObnoxiousDirty WordsBad Stuff Author:Paul Reiser
“If your stomach blocks your view of your feet, cover it up! The only people who should be wearing belly shirts are people who don't have bellies. Now those little baby spare tires are kinda cute; tractor tires aren't! Especially if they've got hair on them!” PeopleIfsShouldLittlesViewsFeetHairBabyBlockCuteShirtsStomachSparesBellyTireTractors Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“I'd much rather have AIDS than a baby... They're not that different at all. They're both expensive, you have them for the rest of your life, they're constant reminders of the mistakes you've made and once you have them, you pretty much can only date other people who have them.” PeopleMadeDifferentMistakeBabyConstantAidsExpensiveRemindersRest Of Your LifeMistakes You've Made Author:Donald Glover
“I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it.” PeopleLightCan DoBabyTerribleTreatsGiantsCartoon Author:Zach Galifianakis
“Or people who have one baby and go buy a minivan... how big is your baby?” PeopleBigsBabyMinivans Author:Chelsea Handler
“I don't like people who have babies and act like they did something that the rest of us can't figure out. Anybody can have one, OK? I could have had three if I had gone through with any of my pregnancies.” PeopleIfsThreeGoneFiguresBabyPregnancy Author:Chelsea Handler
“There was a man named Robert Dear who in court said he was a warrior for the babies, whose ex-wife talked about his Christian beliefs motivating his desire to attack and murder three people, including a police officer, in Colorado.That man is a Christian. He`s an avowed Christian. He appears to have acted on those Christian beliefs to undertake that act of violence.” PeopleMenSaidChristianDesireThreeBeliefWifeViolenceBabyMurderPoliceCourtIncludingDearWarriorOfficersExesPolice OfficerColoradoActs Of ViolenceEx Wife Author:Chris Hayes
“I may be the baby of the family, but that doesn't mean I don't get to boss people around.” PeopleMayMeanBabyBoss Author:Tamar Braxton
“You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place.” PeopleKnowsWantMomentsFeelingsGuyCertainLeftBitsRealizingSpecialPlanetsBabySittingYeahWingsBunchSpecial Places Author:Keith Richards
“My dad plays the fiddle. He stopped playing for years. He was playing when I was a baby, and then he stopped for about five years, or ten years, he says. Then all of a sudden he started playing again, and we all got interested. We started having people like Ciarán Tourish coming up to the house, and Dinny McLaughlin, who taught Ciarán, and who taught myself as well. And it just grew from that” PeopleYearsWellsPlayHouseFiveTaughtBabyGrewDadTenMy DadFive YearsFiddle Author:Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh
“Well my wife and I just had a baby ourselves and it makes it harder to be on the road. It isn't for everybody and it can burn people out, and that's what's happened in the past. We've just kept the ship running y'know what I mean? You change engineers from time to time and as long as everybody coming aboard knows what direction the ship is, everything's alright.” PeopleKnowsWellsMeanLongRunningPastWifeHappenedBabyHarderMy WifeShipsEngineersAlright Author:Al Barr
“A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy or all kinds of tragic things. There are some people whose children haven't talked to them in fifteen years. There's all kind of meshugaas in this world.” PeopleWorldYearsKindChildrenHappenedCrazyHavensThis WorldBabyMy FriendsAll KindsTragicFifteenFifteen YearsSad Things Author:Grace Paley
“To try to help people have babies in a healthy way and to celebrate the process of delivering a child which will be healthy is, I think, almost the best part of healthcare.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingChildrenHelpingProcessBabyHealthyCelebrateHealthcareDelivering Author:Annie Lennox
“In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit it are the ones who don't come in for care. If a mother in the United States or in Europe or in the UK comes to care and gets her medicines, she will have an HIV negative baby. Most people don't know that.” PeopleIfsKnowsChildrenStatesCareMotherUnitedUnited StatesBabyEuropeNegativeMedicineHivTransmitTransmission Author:Annie Lennox
“We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the AIDS epidemic came along that so many would die, because it was gay people dying. And what emerged was a grassroots movement that developed, and succeeded in getting things done. The pinpointing of that movement evolved into the changes that we have today.” PeopleEndsDoneTodayDiesSocialDyingExampleMovementBabyGayAidsSocial ChangeThings DoneEpidemicsGay PeopleGrassrootsGetting Things DoneBoomersBaby BoomerPeople DyingAids EpidemicGrassroots Movements Author:Todd Haynes
“I love my family but my family - they're the type of people that never let you forget anything you ever did... I was in the first grade Christmas play - I'm playing Mary. Now, during the course of the play, I dropped the baby Jesus... They still talk about this. I go to my family reunion, and one of my cousins just had a baby. So I'm like, 'Oh, that's a cute little baby. Let me hold the baby...' And my aunt runs over, 'Don't you give her that baby! You know she dropped the baby Jesus!'” PeopleKnowsGivingFirstsLittlesStillsPlayRunningCoursesJesusForgetBabyTypeMy FamilyLet MeCuteGradesMaryCousinAuntReunionMy CousinFamily ReunionLove My FamilyI Love My FamilyBaby Jesus Author:Wanda Sykes
“I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.” PeopleThinkingShouldFeelingsTurnsOpportunityBabyArmsNew Baby Author:Erin McKean
“You have babies at home. And you have a life. And if you don't, you have to realize that we're people and that we just need privacy and we need our respect. And those are things that you have to have as a human being.” PeopleIfsNeedsHumansHomeRealizingHuman BeingsBabyPrivacy Author:Britney Spears
“I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn't listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King.” PeopleHouseParentBlackColorBabyKingsIsolatedLater In LifeBoomersBaby BoomerBlack Music Author:Jess Row
“The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us.” PeopleThreeBlackBornJusticeCenturyColorBabyOughtPrisonMalesReportsJailAstonishingBlack MalesBaby Born Author:Bryan Stevenson
“When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.” PeopleWayKindCharacterStoriesDesireCultureFightingEffortRolesFireViolenceObjectsBabyPicksGunFemaleDoctorsAbuseSafetyWoodsViolentTortureRejectsHospitalsGuardianExpertiseFemale CharactersSquatNot PrettyDisenfranchisedObjects Of Desire Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“Mac [Barnett] and I prank each other during our presentation. We show baby pictures of each other looking completely ridiculous. I can't believe the frilly shirt that I'm in, and Mac's wearing a sailor suit and playing a toy piano. That's a perfect example of a good prank, where we have three hundred people literally laughing in our faces, three hundred kids at every assembly. And it feels really good. It's really fun.” PeopleFeelsBelieveI CanShowsKidsFacesThreeFunPerfectLaughingExampleBabyHundredRidiculousSuitsPianoShirtsToysPresentationAssemblySailorMacsPranksBaby Pictures Author:Jory John
“I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in New York City, and my parents, my sister, and I had a house on Fire Island, and they were part of a set of people that were all close and friendly, most of whom were involved in show business in one regard or another. So it was always familiar to me, and I kind of enjoyed it.” PeopleKindShowsHouseParentCitiesFireNew YorkBabyGrewInvolvedGrew UpAbsolutesRegardFamiliarEnjoyedIslandsFriendlyNew York CityMy SisterShow Business Author:Fred Melamed
“Ugh, puppy mills. These commercial breeding facilities are horrendous. The animals are kept in tiny wire cages, with little to no human interaction throughout their lives. They are rarely, if ever, seen medically and are forced to breed over and over again and watch as their babies are taken away from them and sold to pet stores. It is a supply-and-demand business, so the more people stop going to pet stores and choose to adopt instead, the quicker we can put an end to these puppy mills.” PeopleIfsHumansLittlesEndsAnimalWatchesTakenBabyDemandStoresTinyPetInteractionCagesWireFacilityPuppyBreedingMillsUghSupply And Demand Author:Beth Ostrosky Stern
“Gay people, we die in all the movies, like we almost always die in the movie, because that's what you can do to us that's dramatic. We can't make a baby.” PeopleDiesCan DoBabyGayDramaticGay People Author:Guy Branum
“I know my dear brother, President [Barack] Obama, has a bust of Martin King right there in the Oval Office, but the question is are is he going to be true to who that Martin Luther King, Jr., actually is? King was concerned about what? The poor. He was concerned about working people. He was concerned about quality jobs. He was concerned about quality housing. He was concerned about precious babies in Vietnam, the way we ought to be concerned about precious babies in Afghanistan and precious babies in Tel Aviv and precious babies in Gaza.” PeopleKnowsWayJobsPresidentPoorQualityBrotherBabyOughtKingsOfficeConcernedDearBeing TrueBarackAfghanistanVietnamHousingLutherPresident Barack ObamaGazaOvalDear Brother Author:Cornel West
“The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.” PeopleYearsHomeDreamWealthPiecesBabyBuyingEarningTrophiesBoomersBaby BoomerGood YearsInherited Wealth Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“For the other people, the babies, the young ones, I did not order them to be killed. For Son Sen and his family, yes. I feel sorry for that. That was a mistake that occurred when we put our plan into practice. I feel sorry.” PeopleFeelsYoungOrderMistakePracticePlansSonBabySorryYoung Ones Author:Pol Pot
“I don't like to leave what I'm going to eat in other people's hands, so I'll pack my own lunch. I chop up a salad with lots of greens - everything from spinach, baby spinach, arugula, cucumber, avocado, radish, cauliflower, and green olives to parsley and cilantro, all chopped really fine - with a piece of wild salmon. I even bring my own tea in a Thermos.” PeopleHandsMy OwnPiecesBabyFineGreenTeaLunchPacksSaladOlivesSalmonCucumbersSpinachAvocadosRadishesCauliflowerThermosParsleyArugula Author:Miranda Kerr
“I'm sad because I want to bow out of my race and leave my beautiful identity? Chinese love Chinese. They love their little slant eyed, pale brown skinned babies. Pakistanis love their culture.Jewish people love their culture. A lot of Catholics want to marry Catholics because the want their religion to stay the same.” PeopleWantLittlesBeautifulCultureRaceIdentityBabyCatholicChineseBrownBowsPaleI'm Sad Author:Muhammad Ali
“One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn't want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn't considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described.” PeopleIfsWantYearsChildrenCountrySometimesWantedYoungTurnsGirlGrowsAnswersMillionsGrowing UpBabyOne DayConcernedIntelligentCriminalsAbortionSincerelyUnlovedUnmarriedYoung Ladies Author:Ronald Reagan
“Now people think it's cool to have a baby, but it ain't cool to take care of it. We have to change that. You make your life for that baby. That's the future.” PeopleThinkingCareBabyTake Care Author:Snoop Dogg
“Having done television for almost 20 years now, a pilot is kind of like a rough draft. It's like bringing people into your ultrasound and hooking up to the monitor and going, "Isn't my baby beautiful?" "Yeah. I can only see the outline of it, but it looks like it might be."” PeopleYearsLooksKindI CanDoneMightBeautifulTelevisionBabyYeahRoughPilotsOutlinesMy BabyRough DraftsUltrasounds Author:Matt Bomer
“I've been called a "baby killer" and I've been told I should die and that I'm ruining women's lives. Those accusations hurt for sure - and I pause when such labels are applied to me - but because they come from people I don't necessarily respect, I have an easier time moving beyond them.” PeopleShouldMovingDiesHurtBabyEasierLabelsKillersPausesAccusationEasier TimesMoving Beyond Author:Amy Richards
“I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers, and you know the feather dancers would come, and they'd say, "What are you, a poet? You're next".” PeopleKnowsNextCryPoetBabyBeerPerformingDancerFeathersFestivalsLiftingCinco De Mayo Author:Sandra Cisneros
“When I'm taking the subway to my improv shows I will be writing in my notebook different actions that I see people doing on the train whether it's eating yogurt or looking at where their stop is, or tripping or holding a baby. It's not preparing scenes and ideas as much as it is stoking your brain to think observantly. Just to place observations in your head, so that they are available somewhere.” PeopleThinkingWritingIdeasDifferentShowsActionBrainBabySceneEatingTrainAvailableObservationPreparingNotebookSubwayYogurtTripping Author:Mike Birbiglia
“I realize that people fly with small children all the time, and that babies are easier in some ways because all they do is sit/lie around anyway, but damn it's hard to keep a baby comfortable on any flight, much less a long one, particularly amid the looks of horror they will get from fellow passengers as it dawns on them that their 10- to 13-hour flight might come with a soundtrack of screaming baby.” PeopleWayLooksChildrenLongHardMightLyingRealizingHoursBabyEasierHorrorComfortableFellowsFlightDawnDamnPassengersSmall ChildSoundtracksScreaming Babies Author:Carolyn Hax
“The majority of Latinos in this country are 28 years old or younger. All of those people out there attacking the Latino community, when you see a Latino going down the street with a baby carriage and a couple of children walking beside them, they should say 'Hey, there goes my social security and my Medicare.' Those are the people that are going to contribute to keep our social security system funded and our medical system funded.” PeopleShouldYearsChildrenCountrySocialCommunityStreetsSecurityBabyCoupleWalkingMajorityMedicalHeySocial SecurityAttackingLatinoMedicareCarriagesSecurity Systems Author:Dolores Huerta
“I, 100 percent don't think that's where the American people at, because when there's viral pictures as a baby is in Aleppo with, you know, rubble all over them going viral, and then there are celebrities tweeting why haven't we done nothing about this? And like, oh, there are actually many people for years who've been trying to send aid then and this president won't let us.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingYearsDonePresidentHavensBabyPercentAidsRubbleViral Author:John McCain
“Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this year? Yet social scientists are asked to answer analogous questions. We economists and perhaps psychologists shouldn't overreact to the derision. That is, we shouldn't try to overlay a false sense of precision on our admittedly squooshy work.” PeopleTryingYearsGirlSocialAnswersBabyScientistExperimentsControlledEconomistDollsPsychologistPrecisionDerision Author:Robert J. Shiller
“I would never call people that are born in America who are from Mexico terror babies.” PeopleAmericaBornBabyTerrorMexico Author:Andrew Breitbart
“Youth. The fact that, in the mid-'90s, guys like Lee Fields gave me and all these young people the chance to do backup. I was in my 30s, but some of those guys were still teenagers. Others were 22 and 23 - babies, all of them.” PeopleStillsFactsYoungGuyChanceFieldsYouthBabyTeenagerBackup Author:Sharon Jones
“In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good deeds. It doesn't matter. Just as people engaged in sex with contraception are not aware of being motivated by a drive to have babies, it doesn't cross our mind that the reason for do-gooding is based in the fact that our primitive ancestors lived in small groups.” PeopleMindMatterReasonFactsBigsMightWantedPastSexInterestCitiesGroupsBabyCrossesDeedsEngagedMotivatedAncestorGenesPrimitiveGood DeedsSmall GroupsBig CitiesContraceptionExtended FamilyPrehistoricReciprocate Author:Richard Dawkins
“I was once really close to sitting down and having a conversation with a shadowy young woman who is reputed have become a millionaire by investing in Beanie Babies. She was someone that a couple people claimed to know, she seemed to exist, but she remained shadowy.” PeopleKnowsYoungBabyCoupleConversationSittingDown AndInvestingYoung WomenMillionaireSitting Down Author:William Gibson
“It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying, "I didn't want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!" And to see all these people, a Hispanic cop dancing with an old white woman, wow! I mean, that's the world I want to live in, and because it's the world I want to live in, I had a hard time leaving.” PeopleWorldWantMeanHardFeelingsBigsAbleWantedGuyBlackWhiteSeeingMissingSonBabyArmsDancingLeavingBarackHard TimesTonightWowFlagsCopBlack WomenHispanicWheelchairsAmerican Flag Author:Bill Ayers
“I hope to encourage some people out there, especially all the mixed, curly-headed babies of the world, stand up, we are here! But just people in general, it really doesn't matter. Judge a man on his actions, his words, not the color of his skin or the race, or where he grew up.” PeopleMenWorldMatterActionRaceColorJudgingBabyGrewGrew UpSkins Author:Kevin michael
“I came from a big family, with not enough attention. It's classic. I wasn't the baby, but was second to last. It's absolutely the same story that most people have in this [film] business, they're the middle children. I've encountered some people, and it's weird to me, that they were the youngest in their family. I don't understand how that works, they got the attention.” PeopleChildrenEnoughStoriesBigsLastsFilmAttentionMiddleBabyClassicBig FamiliesMiddle Child Author:Paul F. Tompkins