Jesse Jackson Quotes
While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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I don't have time to be negative.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
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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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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.
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To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.
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The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
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There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
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You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.
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People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.
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My main commitment is to Caudwell Children. I put more than £1m a year into the charity, besides a lot of time and effort.
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I have always prided myself on if, hypothetically, the entertainment industry just dissolved, just went away today, I feel that I have enough marketable skills that I could still contribute to society and make a difference. I'm a very good typist.
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
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The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
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While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
