Boman Irani Quotes
My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
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Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there's nothing more satisfying.
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Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.
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I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.
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It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.
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As the father of eight children, I'm quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries - it's the I that's in the ever-changing body.
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'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
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I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.
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Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
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Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men’s powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us--which is really just love for ourselves.
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Women are socialized to take advantage of four informal options for emotional support: husbands; womenfriends; children; and parents. Men are socialized to take advantage of only one of these informal options: their wife or womanfriend.
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If you work hard, you do your part, you should be able to give your children all the opportunities they deserve. That is the basic bargain of America.
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When I'm done my mixed martial arts career, the only people who are gonna remember me and respect what I did and how I lived my life are my two children. That's my legacy, ladies and gentlemen.
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Some children challenge themselves to maybe run a marathon or something. I challenged myself to stay up for two days and make cinnamon toast and watch the Jerry Lewis Telethon and laugh and cry.
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I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.
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Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.
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I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.
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Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell. ... These gods dwell in their mythocracies as opposed to your theocracies, democracies, and monocracies. They dwell in a magic world. These Gods can even offer you immortality.
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My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.
