Lisa Cholodenko Quotes

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Lisa Cholodenko

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• I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

  

  Carl Paladino
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• I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
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• I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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• Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.

  

  Takashi Murakami
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• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.

  

  Ian Wace
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• I want to just be what kids believe in.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
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• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
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• In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

  

  Daley Thompson
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• I love holidaying with the kids after working hard, it is amazing.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• 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
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• Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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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.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
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• My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

  

  Victor Cruz
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• It's always astounded me to have succeeded at having kids. It's crazy!

  

  Carla Bruni
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• It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.

  

  Bob Hoskins
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• You left the best you had, baby dont look so mad.

  

  LeToya Luckett Destiny's Child
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• We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
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• One thing about television, it brings out personality. People are able to watch me in action. They hear my voice and see my eyes. There's nothing I can hide. That's me. Television brings out your flaws, your weaknesses, your strengths, and you truths. The audience either likes you or it doesn't.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
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• Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.

  

  Marion Marechal-Le Pen
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• Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

  

  Lisa Cholodenko
  • Kids