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		In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Padma Lakshmi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lactantius 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Anton Zaslavski 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Yogi Berra 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Natalie Wood 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Viggo Mortensen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Sadie Frost 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Saint Bernard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Eartha Kitt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aziz Ansari 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rand Paul 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Love is a beautiful feeling. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kabir Bedi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Anything that I write comes from the soul. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Padma Lakshmi