Sue Johanson Quotes

Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it.

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• I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Kids
  • Deal
  • Pretentious

• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Great
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  • See

• It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Experience
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Work
  • Kids
  • You

• I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • Kids
  • White

• You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • People
  • Kids
  • Said

• 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.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.

  

  Vijay
  • Kids
  • Friend
  • Wife

• You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Kids
  • You

• When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Life
  • Silly

• I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Hope

• I often don't read reviews.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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  • Often
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• Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Kids
  • Control
  • Same

• I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Read
  • Novels
  • RAND

• When the game is finished, it's completely finished. I'm with my kids. Sometimes people say to me, 'Oh, did you see the game?' and I say, 'No, I didn't see the game'. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Kids
  • Friends

• When I was young, I would stay in my backyard and I would create roads and tunnels and systems. My uncle had a sawmill, and we had all sorts of pieces of wood, and we'd create a city. I truly believe that kids enjoy the box better than the car or the toy that's inside. So many times during Christmas, watching a kid, or even myself... There is excitement toward your toy, but then you put the toy on the side and something is created with the package.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Car

• I have a really, really great girl in my life right now.

  

  Chad Michael Murray
  • Life
  • Great
  • Girl

• I quickly realized I live the least interesting literary life imaginable. My parents are happily married. There haven't been any major traumas. I'm not sure that the story of my life would be much fun to read.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fun

• It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Interesting

• Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Book
  • Force
  • Novels

• Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it.

  

  Sue Johanson
  • Kids
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  • Questions