Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe (Nicole Ari Parker) Quotes
Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child's self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
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In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
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My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
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One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.
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Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.
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When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.
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Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
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Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.
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The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.
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If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.
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I would love to come to Auckland. That's a place I've been quite a lot with my band so I'm very much looking forward to it.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child's self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.
