Jason Bateman Quotes

My father was a freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.

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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Spend

• My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Father
  • Piano

• Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Important
  • Why
  • Everyone

• My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mother
  • Morning
  • News

• I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Love
  • Father
  • Girl

• I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Father
  • Parents

• I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Work
  • Father
  • Simple

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

  

  Iman
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Independence

• Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Life
  • Age
  • Father

• For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Father
  • Years
  • Railroad

• I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Family
  • Father

• I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Up
  • Father

• Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Father
  • Me
  • Mean

• It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, that's one of the greatest things I've got going on, being a father.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • Father
  • Responsibility

• When I see Lionel Messi play soccer, he lets the game come to him. He lets the game unveil itself to him, then like a lion he eats the whole thing.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Game
  • Soccer
  • Lion

• I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Direction

• It's so interesting that when I finished 'The X-Files' in 2002, the - call it the political and cultural climate in America - was one of fear, and trust of government. Because we put ourselves in the hands of the authority who was going to protect us. And, you know, we gave up a lot of our liberties to Homeland Security, etc.

  

  Chris Carter
  • Up
  • America
  • Political

• Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

  

  Andrew Bird

• One of the greatest injustices of the Vietnam era is the way our veterans were treated when they returned home. This compounded the pain experienced by those who served. That is a mistake we must never make again.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Home
  • Pain
  • Mistake

• My father was a freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Mother
  • Father