Paul Vixie Quotes

With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.

Paul Vixie

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• I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Change

• I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Parents

• Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Help

• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Tradition

• I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Know

• All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Kids
  • Film
  • Brother

• The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Work
  • Kids
  • You

• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Love
  • Kids

• My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are even some moms who think it's cheesy. It's a role you can't prepare for; it's a role you don't get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it's been the most fulfilling.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Kids

• We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Job
  • Kids

• Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Kids
  • Future

• I love holidaying with the kids after working hard, it is amazing.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Amazing

• Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Friends

• I'm ready to be an action figure. I'd love that very much. And all the redheaded kids will get to go out and feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Action

• You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Kids
  • You

• It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at mommy and daddy, running the show.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Important
  • Kids
  • America

• Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa. They said, "We are going to make America live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States." They produced one of the world's great cultures; they produced individuals who were just as brilliant and made contributions to the world civilization. In fact, they produced a world-class civilization, the African American civilization, in music, in dance, in oratory, in religion, in writing.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• Brine shrimp were not overly talkative, squirrels failed to make significant headway in the fields of technology and mathematics, and seagulls were clearly unburdened by reason, feeling, or remorse.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Squirrels
  • Seagulls
  • Shrimp

• I don't want anyone to ever feel they are alone and no one likes them, or to feel as insecure as I did.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Alone

• Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Twitter
  • Some People

• With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.

  

  Paul Vixie
  • Kids