“My daughter is a practicing physician so believe me I get a lot of the frustration from her. You get it from patients. For me personally, when I ask my doctor to send me my record, what I get is a scanned PDF of his hard copy! This is not good. It would be hopeless to work with a million people if you had to do this on paper, and one of the reasons this is the right time for this is because of the existence of EHRs.” PeopleIfsBelieveHardReasonWould BeAsksExistenceMillionsRecordsPaperDaughterDoctorsPatientFrustrationMy DaughterHopelessCopiesBelieve In MePhysiciansRight Time Author:Francis Collins
“I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, 'We're black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we're all brought up differently.'” PeopleIfsPersonsSaidGirlBlackWhiteDaughterChineseBrownMy DaughterBlack PeopleIncidentsHispanic Author:Kevin Hart
“I'm passionate about being true to myself, sending good energy to the people around me, traveling, staying inspired, being a good friend, being a good daughter, being a good sister.” PeopleEnergyDaughterInspiredPassionateBeing TrueStayingGood FriendTrue To MyselfGood EnergyBeing A Good FriendGood Sister Author:Erin Wasson
“I talk about my grandmother a lot, because she's an amazing person - not in some dramatic, distinct, unique way, but anybody who is the daughter of enslaved people and who has found a way to be hopeful and create love and value justice and seek peace is a remarkable person.” PeopleWayPersonsValuesFoundJusticeUniqueDaughterDramaticHopefulRemarkableGrandmotherMy GrandmotherAmazing Person Author:Bryan Stevenson
“People would stop me in the street - my demographic tends to be the elderly Jewish women from Miami; I think they tend to fancy me as someone that would've been good with their daughter or something - and a lot of them will do the wrist-slapping thing. "Oh, you're a terrible man! Just terrible!" And I'm, like, "Well, it's just a show. I'm just playing a character."” PeopleThinkingMenWellsCharacterShowsStreetsTerribleDaughterFancyElderlyWristsMiamiDemographicsSlapping Author:Peter Jacobson
“My mom's younger sister was born with Down syndrome. I was close to my grandmother when I was growing up. I remember talking to my grandmother about politics, and she told me that she regularly voted for the Democrats because she knew that they were going to look out for people like her daughter. That made an impression on me, too.” PeopleLooksMadeRememberBornTalkingGrowing UpGrowingMomDaughterDemocratMy MomImpressionGrandmotherMy GrandmotherLike HerSyndromesYounger SisterDown Syndrome Author:Josh Earnest
“Prostitutes have feelings; they are very human. They hurt, bleed cry and laugh just like you and me. To the people that want to legalize prostitution: Let me ask you a question. If you want to legalize it, would you now let your daughter/niece/grand daughter/sister do this? Why not sign them up for what you want legalized? And if not, WHY not? Does it make them too human for you now?” PeopleIfsWantHumansDoeFeelingsAsksHurtLaughingCryLike YouDaughterLet MeWhat You WantWhy NotProstitutionOur DaughterYour DaughterNieceGrand Daughter Author:Annie Lobert
“I don't see masses, I don't see it like, oh there's hundreds of people here and I'm overwhelmed. I just try to think, well I could be a kid in that crowd, or my daughters could be in that crowd, and no one wants to feel like they're just part of the masses.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsTryingWellsKidsMassDaughterCrowdsMy DaughterOverwhelmed Author:Mike Vallely
“I get a lot of people who will either write to me or come up in public and say, "My daughter, son, family, or I, etc. look up to you."” PeopleWritingLooksSonDaughterCome UpLook UpEtcMy DaughterUp To You Author:Atticus Shaffer
“I have a wife and two daughters; people who depend on me. Everything is more important than it was when I was 20. But now I'm like, "Eh, I made it this far."” PeopleMadeTwoImportantWifeDependsDaughterMade ItTwo Daughters Author:Rob Corddry
“I feel like that's a way people can change the way music is - to be guided by someone they believe in and trust. Larson and I really believed in each other. It was like brother/sister, father/daughter, we were laughing and yelling, that's how it is when you make an album! Essentially the trust was there and I got something great.” PeopleWayFeelsBelieveFatherLaughingBrotherMusic IsDaughterAlbumsYellingBrother SisterDaughter To FatherPeople Can Change Author:Laura Bell Bundy
“In many poor countries, if the daughter is told who she's going to marry, and told that she's going to live in the village with her husband's family, she really has very little opportunity to make her own decisions. If she comes for a while to work in a factory, she has her own money. In family agriculture, it's never your money. It's whatever somebody decides to give you. For many people this is tremendously valuable, because then they can step up.” PeopleIfsGivingLittlesCountryOpportunityDecisionPoorStepsHusbandDaughterValuableVillageFactoriesAgricultureStep UpPoor Countries Author:Pietra Rivoli
“I don't have a strategy. I am my own person. So if people disagree with the opinion of my father and want to dislike me because I'm his daughter, then I'm probably not going to be able to discourage them from that.” PeopleIfsWantPersonsAbleFatherMy OwnOpinionDaughterStrategyDisagreeDislikeDiscouragingDislike Me Author:Ivanka Trump
“I think there's evil on both sides [of Syria], and I think that's one reason I don't want to be involved in civil war. I see things in personal terms. I just can't see sending one of my sons - or your son or daughter - to fight in a civil war, where on one side we have a dictator, who in all likelihood gassed his people.” PeopleThinkingWantWarReasonFightingEvilSidesTermSonInvolvedDaughterCivil WarMy SonDictatorSyriaBoth SidesLikelihoodYour Son Author:Rand Paul
“I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.” PeopleMenWantMindPersonsBlackWhiteHalfSonReturnDaughterMen And WomenIntelligentBrownBlack PeopleIntroducingGrandchildrenMarryingKinkySon And Daughter Author:Muhammad Ali
“I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round.” PeopleYearsLooksChildrenUsedParentFiveDaughterRoundsGrievingFive YearsMy DaughterWireFive Year OldsSingle ParentBeing A Single Parent Author:David Toop
“I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.” PeopleThinkingWantSelfMatterPassionDisciplineDaughterCapacityMy DaughterSelf DisciplineDiminishNothing MattersSloughWild Passion Author:Marianne Williamson
“If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantIdeasReasonHeardTeachingFineDaughterEverydayMannersMy DaughterAuntSillinessGertrude Author:Marianne Williamson
“Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.” PeopleHardHoursCreativeAliveInspireSkillsSixDaughterAthleteMy DaughterGymnasticsCreative PeopleGymnast Author:Nathan East
“The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs.” PeopleKnowsIdeasPhilosophyAmericaSongLostHalfTalkingGenerationsFansPossibilityListeningDaughterCriticsLikesEmbeddedLost Generation Author:Saul Williams
“I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."” PeopleIfsSaidCharacterKidsMotherIndustryMetsDirectorsDaughterMy FriendsFemaleDecidedAskingFeministProducersThey SaidFemale CharactersMother DaughterKids Movie Author:Geena Davis
“One of the fashion things I ever did was for Helmut Lang for Visionaire magazine and I used people from all genders. People from the age of 18 - like James King - to people like my friend Sharon [Stone] who's about 50 or older. People of all different shapes and literally all different genders and my boyfriend at the time and his daughter who was 11.” PeopleDifferentAgeUsedFashionKingsShapesDaughterMy FriendsStonesGenderMagazinesMy BoyfriendOlder PeopleSharon Author:Nan Goldin
“I had such a good time doing that movie [Sister Act 2]. My daughter's in that movie. It was a fun film to do. And it shocked a lot of people, because they loved it, and they take it with them.” PeopleFilmFunDaughterGood TimesMy DaughterShockedSister Act Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.” PeopleWantDaughterPartnersTennisMy Daughter Author:Ann Patchett
“What we do in the book my daughter Anna and I wrote, Hope's Edge, is to give people a glimpse of food as a source of nourishment, health, and community, rather than a threat. That means reconnecting with food as it comes from the Earth and with those who produce food.” PeopleGivingMeanBookEarthCommunityProduceSourceDaughterThreatEdgesMy DaughterGlimpseNourishmentAnnaReconnecting Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“We dated in our early 20s, when we were working at the same newspaper. We broke up, got back together and broke up again. I wanted to get married and have kids, but he wasn't ready. So I married someone else, had my daughters and the marriage ended ... and there was Bill. He'd never gotten married and was finally, finally ready. We discovered that we were still each other's favorite people to talk to.” PeopleStillsKidsWantedTogetherReadyMarriedDaughterBillsNewspapersBrokeMy DaughterBack TogetherBroke UpEarly 20s Author:Jennifer Weiner
“They [media] don't care if they're hurting anybody's family or hurting their reputation. The most interesting thing about it is that it's people doing it to other people. It's somebody who has a sister or a brother or a daughter or a son or a family. They don't care.” PeopleIfsCareHurtInterestingMediaSonBrotherDaughterDon't CareReputationMost InterestingInteresting Things Author:Scott Eastwood
“I have a 12-year-old daughter, and all the time people will say, 'Oh, she's young!" and you'd be so surprised what you can learn from that 12-year-old if you just opened up your mind.” PeopleIfsYearsMindYoungDaughter Author:Justin Hartley
“I interviewed Kim Kardashian recently and had a conversation with her mother. A lot of people have various thoughts about Kim Kardashian, her mother and her sisters, but it is an incredibly well thought through concept and branding. Each of the daughters appeals to a different segment of the market.” PeopleWellsDifferentMotherConversationDaughterConceptsVariousAppealsBrandingKim Author:Martin Sorrell
“No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he opposed it, as people say, but he wasn't eager for it. I suppose because the fathers of only daughters would prefer to see them get married as late as possible.” PeopleWantedFatherLateMarriedDaughterOnly Daughter Author:Indira Gandhi
“The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people.” PeopleWantYearsChildrenSelfHardKidsValuesThreeSuccessfulHard WorkDisciplineSixEmpathyDaughterConcernedOur ChildrenDemocratSelf RespectBeing SuccessfulThree YearsNot AfraidFrameworkHappy PeopleSix Year OldsThree Year Olds Author:Barack Obama
“All the best times in music were rebellious. I mean, even like Elvis, people didn't want their daughters paying attention to him. He was considered too sexual!” PeopleWantMeanAttentionDaughterPay AttentionRebelliousBest TimesAll The Best Author:Miguel
“I get a lot of invitations, and sometimes it's far away, it's in Montana or something. "We'd like you to come to our daughter's wedding." These are people I've never heard of. I get a lot that. "Will you come to my son's graduation?" No...I guess when you're in stuff, it's almost a feeling that they know you.” PeopleKnowsSometimesFeelingsStuffHeardSonLike YouDaughterMy SonFar AwayInvitationsMontanaOur Daughter Author:Christopher Walken
“I'm not comparing myself with Donald Trump or anybody else - but the people are fed up with the politicians ignoring the problem. The people are fed up by if they say something about the influx of the mass immigration from mostly Islamic countries, what they really feel is the threat for the safety of their daughters who go to school or their parents who walk in the park or themselves going shopping on a Thursday evening in Holland - they are being called racist if they make a remark about, 'hey this is not our country anymore.'” PeopleIfsFeelsCountryProblemSchoolParentWalksTrumpPoliticianMassDaughterSafetyThreatImmigrationOur CountryHeyEveningCompareParksIslamicRacistFedsShoppingRemarksFed UpThursdayHollandWalks In The Park Author:Geert Wilders
“I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.” PeopleIfsFeelsSaidSchoolNamesDaughterTreatsJuliaMarie Author:Al Pacino
“Back when I was younger, I would have no fear climbing a ladder. I couldn't wait to get to the top just so I could jump off. Now I am married and raising my two daughters, and I'm not a kid in the WWE any more. People ask me how I am so fearless on a ladder and how I have no fear in the ring. And the answer to that question is a bit complicated. I used to have no fear, but that is no longer true. With a wife and two girls at home, I'm more afraid now than ever.” PeopleTwoHomeKidsUsedGirlAsksBitsWaitingAnswersWifeMarriedDaughterComplicatedRingsFearlessAsk MeClimbingWweNo FearLaddersBack WhenHave No FearTwo Daughters Author:Jeff Hardy
“We love them [people who have same-sex attractions] as sons and daughters of God. They may have certain inclinations which are powerful and which may be difficult to control. If they do not act upon these inclinations, then they can go forward as do all other members of the Church.” PeopleIfsMayCertainSexDifficultChurchPowerfulSonMembersDaughterAttractionInclinationSon And DaughterDaughter Of God Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“My daughter Alexandra once told me, "Mother, you're a pioneer. Now, hardly anybody cooks, but you were one of the first to stop." After 20 years of cooking, I started to appreciate the value of other people's work. So I would, say, go get a duck in Chinatown. I always had the salad and set the table, but I didn't have to clean the pots.” PeopleYearsFirstsMotherValuesDaughterAppreciateTablesCookingCleanCooksMy DaughterPotDucksPioneersSaladChinatown Author:Nancy Pelosi
“I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married or not. And perhaps the greatest change of attitude is that today, at least in Kenya, if you don't send your child to school - unless it's a matter of poverty or religion, and it is not that there no schools - then people wonder, "why the hell don't you send your children to school?" Now that's a very big jump from when I was going to school and educating girls was an exception to the rule.” PeopleIfsMenChildrenMatterBigsTodaySchoolGirlAttitudeWonderPovertyHellExampleMarriedDaughterOur ChildrenYour ChildrenExceptionKenyaException To The Rule Author:Wangari Maathai
“If my daughter wanted to wear a headscarf and dress in a religiously conservative way, I would be heartbroken. But if she were to decide to do that and she were to live in a place where people said she couldn't do that, I would be entirely committed to her right to do so.” PeopleIfsWaySaidWould BeWantedDaughterDressesConservativeCommittedMy DaughterHeartbroken Author:Mohsin Hamid
“The ratings system is so bogus and people know it. Fewer and fewer people care. The ratings board has sort of exposed itself. But my problem is, as a parent, there's this area of film that my daughters want to see. They're not my kind of films, I don't want to go see them, but I really want to know whether my daughters can see them or not. The morality of what the ratings board is doing now escapes me. I don't get it.” PeopleKnowsWantKindProblemCareFilmParentMoralityDaughterAreasBoardsMy DaughterExposedFewerRating Author:William H. Macy
“When one is that powerful and one think life will last like that forever, it is simply the most ephemeral thing. I don't think these sons and daughters of drug dealers are contributing to a lasting peace nor to human values that add to our society. They're delivering the message of riches and power that comes at the cost of people's lives and health and they incentivize young people to follow this model.” PeopleThinkingHumansLastsYoungValuesPowerfulForeverSonCostDrugMessagesModelsDaughterAddRichesOur SocietyLastingContributingDealerDeliveringEphemeralHuman ValuesSon And DaughterDrug Dealers Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“What's important for me is to give my daughters a well-rounded education and a mixture of people in their lives. They'll make their own choices. I think they would be good in show business.” PeopleThinkingGivingWellsImportantShowsWould BeChoicesDaughterBe GoodMy DaughterShow BusinessMixturesWhat's ImportantWell Rounded Author:Diana Ross
“We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are women. A lot of them are living alone, with no one to care for them, or they're shunted into institutions. I would like to see a sensible aging policy more like what the Nordic countries have. They're cutting back those programs, but there you can still have in-home nursing care. You don't have to rely on your children. I personally don't want to be a burden on my daughter.” PeopleThinkingMenWantNeedsChildrenStillsCountryHomeCareCuttingPolicyDaughterProgramOur ChildrenInstitutionsAgingBurdenYour ChildrenRelyMy DaughterSensibleNursingLiving AloneNordic Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“I'd like to say that Muslims are never in violence with white people. It's the black man who love you. See, you don't let him in your toilet, you don't let him in your restroom, you don't let him marry your daughter, you gotta fight. So, we're not gonna be botherin' you, you understand. Muslims don't come in, we don't have no trouble with you. It's just the integrator.” PeopleMenFightingBlackWhiteViolenceTroubleLove YouDaughterToiletsOur DaughterYour DaughterRestroom Author:Muhammad Ali
“I have always tried to keep an honest, age-appropriate line of communication open with my daughter,India, even during the teen years, a painful time of development when they usually shut down, and the last person they want to speak to is a parent. But India would always tell me what was going on, so I really encourage people to be as open with your children as you possibly can.” PeopleChildrenSpeakParentHonestCommunicationDaughterOur ChildrenPainfulYour ChildrenMy Daughter Author:Eric Benet
“How could believers, people who regard themselves as true Muslims, get on those planes, quoting the words of God delivered through the Prophet to themselves, knowing they were going to kill innocent people? They saw the other passengers on the plane. They could see the woman with her little daughter. They saw people making phone calls to their wives or their husbands. They knew who they were killing.” PeopleWifeHusbandDaughterKillingBelieverInnocentProphetWord Of GodQuoting Author:Robert Fisk
“I want people to think about the connection between mothers and daughters. I like the idea of continuity of life and generations.” PeopleThinkingMotherDaughter Author:Natasha Gregson Wagner
“I guess early on in my Christian walk, you know, people said to me, "Never question God" you know? But actually I just found Him to be such a good Father. He's such a good Father and He spoke to me in amazing ways that I'm sure I never would have learned some of these things on mountaintops, you know? I thought I knew how much he loved me, but then one day He asked me "What do you believe?" And I'm like, "I believe this and this and this and this" you know. I was a very good Christian in all my answers, and then he said, "No, no, what do you believe, Daughter, about how much I love you?"” PeopleBelieveChristianFatherI BelieveLove YouOne DayDaughterVery GoodGood ChristianGood FatherHow Much I Love You Author:Darlene Zschech
“I am noticing that we're getting more and more people - and I don't know how to handle this - who come to me saying, "Would you pray for my son? Would you pray for my daughter?" I've been saying, "Pray for them yourself." But they don't want that because they think I've got something that's greater than what they have. I keep saying, "I don't! Not really. I got the title 'minister; but I don't want to exploit you. You do it, too." I think the way to solve it is to do it together. We're going to pray in community, you see?” PeopleThinkingTogetherCommunitySonPrayingDaughterMy DaughterMy SonNoticing Author:Cecil Williams