Kenneth Frazier Quotes
I had a fantastic upbringing by two parents who cared deeply about their children but, more importantly, believed that anything was possible for their children and, in some ways, almost brainwashed us to be successful.
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I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
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I chose my house because I loved the fact that there was a really busy road with lots of things to stare at.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.
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I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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I don't think it's an exciting thing to move back in with your parents.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.
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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
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Mr. Harinton was real. There were adults in the world who would actually make sacrifices for others - not just for their own families but for anyone who needed help. Nicholas had always had the impression that families looked after one another, and he had come to understand that, on rare ocassions, children would do the same... But this was different. What Mr. Harinton was doing certainly helped Nicolas - but it also simply felt right to Nicholas. It made him want to be exactly like Mr. Harinton himself.
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Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.
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I had a fantastic upbringing by two parents who cared deeply about their children but, more importantly, believed that anything was possible for their children and, in some ways, almost brainwashed us to be successful.
