Morena Baccarin Quotes

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

Morena Baccarin

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• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Nature
  • House

• My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Up
  • Mother
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• International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Control
  • Military
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• I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
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  • Magic

• I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

  

  Babyface
  • Write
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  • Falling

• What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • American
  • Mother

• I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Family
  • Love
  • Character

• I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Why
  • Control

• I've never wanted to be the boss.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Boss

• When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Mother
  • Myself
  • Daughter

• Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Work
  • Control
  • Better

• I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Good
  • Women
  • Mother

• I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Mother
  • Crazy
  • Just

• I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of young people around the world who are facing bleak employment prospects.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • World
  • Young

• My mother is chairman of a bank called the Indo-Zambia Bank. It's a joint venture between Zambia and India. My father runs Integrity Foundation, an anticorruption organization.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Organization

• I know-yet my arms are empty,That fondly folded seven,And the mother heart within meIs almost starved for heaven.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Heaven

• Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community... If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • She
  • Mother
  • Death

• How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in counteracting the fatal tendency of the government to the absolute and despotic control of the numerical majority?

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • People
  • Control
  • Perfect

• The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.

  

  Kevin Ayers

• I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur that that would be an interesting, good thing. I'm talking about actual politics, like being a congressman, but then I see how unbelievably nasty it really is, and maybe I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to actually do it.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Tennis

• I too have learned this in my experiences with the Spirit of God. Every situation can be redeemed and turned into exactly the preparation we require for a fullness of joy-to the extent of ourfaith in Christ's redemptive power. To that extent, the very circumstances we may have cursed will turn out to be our schooling for salvation.

  

  C. Terry Warner
  • God
  • May
  • Power

• My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

  

  Morena Baccarin
  • Mother
  • Control
  • Young