Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.
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I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.
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We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. But certainly, there can be no true national unity where one-tenth of the population is denied their basic rights as American citizens.
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Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.
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Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.
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I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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If anyone did that, I absolutely apologize. … Because everything we do is based at adults. We're asking adults be responsible. You were telling me about giving your children meat and milk. They're going to be to grow up to be tubs of lard. They're getting heart attacks.
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Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile politely and shut my earlids. I am a writer, not a caterer. There are plenty of caterers. But what children most want and need is what we and they don't know they want and don't think they need, and only writers can offer it to them.
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Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable?
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My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.
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As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...
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My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
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Little less so. “My”
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Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.
