Seth MacFarlane Quotes
My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
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My dad was so much fun growing up.
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I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.
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The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
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I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.
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One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.
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I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.
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If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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There are kids going into chemistry and biology because of 'CSI.'
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No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.
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There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.
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I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.
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The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.
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My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.
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My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.
