Diego Luna Quotes
I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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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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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
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I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.
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It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.
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My whole thing, my priority, is my family, my kids, and my wife. That's my future. I don't really care about what role is next.
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Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
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I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.
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I think things will work out for the greater good for not only me but the city of Pittsburgh. I'm extremely grateful to get out in the community of Pittsburgh and not only play the game but affect other people and kids in that regard, and I'm excited about the whole process of that.
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I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband was much more typical. He had a lot of anxiety; he didn't think he knew all the right choices. And, I was the one willing to put in the hours.
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At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.
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I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.
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Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.
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I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.
