Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.
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The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
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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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My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
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You remember driving your kids to Little League, and they're nervous about making the team, and you're encouraging them. Forty years down the road, we're having the same conversation. Only it's about the Ravens and Steelers, or Stanford and Cal.
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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.
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I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.
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I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.
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As long as I feel like I'm helping kids get better, I don't see why I should stop.
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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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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
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I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.
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I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that.
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The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.
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When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.
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I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.
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Thrilled to be part of this new project Generation Nature and just encouraging kids to change the world.
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The mind of a drunken fool is a useless tool.
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When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can.
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We feel good. We are full of confidence. We take game after game and try to win every game.
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In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.
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Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.
