Jonathan Slavin Quotes

I love kids, but I have to be honest: I am that person at a dinner party who's a little relieved when the kids go to bed.

Jonathan Slavin

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• 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

• I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Party
  • Celebrate

• In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Party
  • Movement

• Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Taken

• My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Kids
  • Small
  • Wife

• The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Life
  • Love
  • Kids

• The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Real

• I want to just be what kids believe in.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Want

• My party trick is that I can get ready to go to the party really quickly. I'm actually a woman that can have a shower, dry and style her hair, do her make-up and get dressed in under an hour.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Party
  • Style

• 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

• It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.

  

  Rachel Roberts
  • You
  • Party
  • Taken

• Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Work
  • Home
  • Kids

• An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Kids
  • Health
  • Moving

• My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and families moving together.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Simple

• When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dreams of being an actress. Kids back home in Texas, who I thought were my friends, were saying things behind my back. They said that I would never make it because I wasn't talented or pretty enough to be on TV.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Friends

• 'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp. And he wrote my next movie, which was 'Made.'

  

  Faizon Love
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • You

• Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Want

• If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Up
  • Country
  • School

• I think rappers are the fall guy because some of us don't have the wits to point the finger back. The thing is when you take a whole generation and whip them out, string the mothers out and put the fathers in jail - the reason I know respect is because my father is the mediator between me and my grandfather. I'm the mediator between my son and my father because I'm old enough to understand where my father is coming from and young enough to understand what my kid is trying to do. When you whip out the mediator the kids run wild and the old people are scared of them.

  

  Nelly
  • People
  • Trying
  • Kids

• Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Different
  • Children
  • Kids

• I used to practice Wicca.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Practice

• I love all of Albert Brooks' work from 'Defending Your Life' back to his first film, 'Real Life', but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work.

  

  Douglas Wood
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I love kids, but I have to be honest: I am that person at a dinner party who's a little relieved when the kids go to bed.

  

  Jonathan Slavin
  • Kids
  • Party