“It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayWantKindDoeHomeKidsSchoolUsedNamesNiceShopsBad ThingsBe KindKnow Me Author:Terry O'Quinn
“I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.” IfsThinkingDoeEnoughDreamKidsLastsSportsPlayerJourneyLuckyTennisBonus Author:Samantha Stosur
“Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.” IfsDoeKidsActionAsksResponsibilityTeachingPolicyToughConsequenceCuriosityTeaching KidsTough Questions Author:George Tenet
“Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.” KnowsFeelsDoeKidsTodaySchoolAnswersClassAskingOddLeagueIvyBuzzIvy LeagueIvy League Schools Author:Shailene Woodley
“It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.” WayDoeKidsTurnsSleepBreakCryBabyHabitTrainingMethodHarmShadePurpleSpoiledBeing SpoiledTurning 40Sleeping Baby Book:My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children Source: My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children
“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.” NeedsShouldFirstsKindMeanDoeTwoHardReasonHomeKidsMotherHouseDecisionDealsNumbersCareersPracticeInvolvedThirdsPursueUncertaintyBuyingStakesSpouseNursingGroceriesNursing Home Author:Steven Levitt
“As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.” IfsWantKindDoeEndsHappensKidsAwfulBully Author:Jordan Peele
“So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it's not. It's not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It's basically writing and math.” PeopleThinkingWritingDoeKidsAmericaSocialResultsDealsCommonStudyTeachingLessonsMathCoreSocial StudiesTeaching KidsCommon Core Author:Megyn Kelly
“I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.” ThinkingDoeStillsIdeasReasonKidsAbleJobsFilmIndividualSexAliveGenerationsAirInformationStandingCurrentsExtremesDefenseIgnorantContemporaryQuestioningGood JobPistolsBombardedSex PistolsQuestioning Everything Author:Julien Temple
“I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?” KnowsMeanDoeArtStatesBodyKidsSchoolCuttingProgramIraqConservativeCompassionateRefugeWildlifeArmorArcticAfter SchoolDrillingAfter School Programs Author:John F. Kerry
“I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.” PeopleKnowsChildrenDoeKidsGrowsBornGrowing UpHabitProdigies Author:Will Rogers
“I have this mistress: show business. I get a lot of love and adulation from outside, and [my wife] lets me have that, while she does all the real-life stuff that counts — making sure the kids are going to school and all that. I married a saint — well, a saint who curses.” WellsDoeRealShowsKidsSchoolStuffWifeMarriedLet MeSaintMy WifeReal LifeCurseShow BusinessMistressAdulation Author:Ray Romano
“If someone comes into your house and does fked-up things to your kids and your wife, you're going to be capable of things you never imagined. Because it's in there. It might be lying dormant, but it's there.” IfsDoeMightKidsLyingHouseWifeCapableDormant Author:Ronald Perelman
“The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do... who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing.” DoeI CanFactsKidsThreeSupportWifeMy WifeGoldenPrivileged Author:Mark Ruffalo
“I have a rule of thumb now and that's that somebody [she dates] has to have been married and they have to have had kids. Everything boils down to perspective. If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.... If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise ... [and] if they don't have children, they don't know the absolute self-sacrifice it takes and what it means to be a parent.” IfsKnowsMeanChildrenDoeHas BeensSelfKidsLostParentSacrificePerspectiveMarriedAbsolutesCompromiseMatesThumbsSelf Sacrifice Author:Eva LaRue
“I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams.” WayFeelsPersonsDoeStillsI CanDifferentWholeHelpingDreamBigsKidsGirlPerspectiveBronx Author:Jennifer Lopez
“I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right thing to do. It does not work. Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest. You have to say, "You know what, if you're gonna do it, at least think about the consequences and get protection.” IfsThinkingKnowsDoeMatterKidsSchoolGirlHonestConsequenceCatholicNo Matter WhatProtectionExperimentsBeing HonestThings To DoRight ThingNecksWhat IfNunAbstinenceCatholic School Author:Jenny McCarthy
“The president(Obama) comparing him to a kid in the back of a classroom, I think, is very indicative of the president's lack of appreciation of who Vladimir Putin is. He's an old KGB colonel that has no illusions about our relationship, does not care about a relationship with the United States, continues to oppress his people, continues to act in an autocratic fashion.” PeopleThinkingDoeStatesCareKidsPresidentUnitedUnited StatesFashionIllusionAppreciationComparePresident ObamaClassroomOur RelationshipPutinColonelsKgb Author:John McCain
“The only guy that speaks at any sort of depth is, in my mind, Eminem. He's a guy that does music that talks about the struggles of addiction and before that violence, with growing up in a broken family, not being a good enough father. So, you know that's what I enjoy about it. It's harder to listen to than ever before because I have a bunch of kids and you just can't put it on.” KnowsMindDoeEnoughKidsGuyFatherSpeakEnjoyStruggleGrowing UpGrowingViolenceBrokenHarderDepthAddictionBunchGood EnoughBroken Family Author:Marco Rubio
“Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids.” WayGivingDoeKidsAudienceWifeAuthorityMarriedWeightBest Way Author:Chris Rock
“I dont think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because were pretty much two different kinds of actors. Hes done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like Uncle Buck and Home Alone and Home Alone 2. And Ive done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS.” ThinkingKindDoeTwoDifferentDoneHomeKidsActorsStuffComedyAidsCompareDifferent KindsUnclesBucksMe AloneSad Movie Author:Brian Bonsall
“Video games is a big part of a kids' life. Videos games let you be something that you're not, so does acting, but it puts you in like a real situation type thing or something totally different.” DoeDifferentRealBigsKidsGamesActingSituationTypeVideo Author:Ty Simpkins
“A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.” IfsGivingTryingDoeSelfReasonKidsGamesGrowsParentResponsibilityGrowing UpFailingProduceHealthyAdultsSelf ConfidenceFixedDependent Author:Simon Sinek
“I'm lucky enough to have a kid with me who is actually really intellectually up with what's going on in the world and actually puts his money where his mouth is and goes and does something about it; he goes and talks about it. It livens you up a bit and it brings you into the 21st Century.” WorldDoeEnoughKidsBitsCenturyLuckyMouths21st Century Author:Ray Winstone
“I learned an invaluable lesson from a kid in Argentina when we were playing Buenos Aires in 2002. I came out of the hotel and this 16-year-old-boy asked me to sign his copy of my Six Wives of Henry VIII album. As I was signing it I asked him 'what does a 16 year-old like about this old music?' and he looked at me, quite hurt, and said, 'it might be old to you, Mr Wakeman, but I only heard it for the first time last week. When you hear something for the first time, it's new.' I've never forgotten that.” YearsFirstsDoeSaidMightKidsLastsHurtBoysWifeHeardWeekLessonsSixFirst TimeForgottenAlbumsHotelCopiesSigningInvaluableArgentinaOld MusicHenry ViiiBuenos AiresHenry V Author:Rick Wakeman
“I've got a reason for running. I talk about a larger goal, which is to call upon the best of America. It's part of the renewal. It's reform and renewal. Part of the renewal is a set of high standards and to remind people that the greatness of America really does depend on neighbors helping neighbors and children finding mentors. I worry. I'm very worried about, you know, the kid who just wonders whether America is meant for him. I really worry about that.” PeopleKnowsChildrenDoeReasonHelpingHumorRunningKidsAmericaPoliticalGoalWonderWorryGreatnessDependsFindingsStandardsNeighborReformWorriedMentorRenewalPolitical HumorHigh StandardsGreatness Of America Author:George W. Bush
“My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.” DoeKidsRadicalHaving Kids Author:Steve Earle