Andre Braugher Quotes
As a father, I've tried to encourage my children to have a broader and deeper emotional life than I've had. I want my sons to be able to express their feelings about things.
Quotes to Explore
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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You've got to take responsibility for your own actions. We all know people who reach rock bottom. However much that they're told that what they're doing is harming their own life or whatever, you cannot make someone do it unless that person reaches the point where they know that they have to deal with it themselves.
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I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene.
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I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal.
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For those of us on that Leave side there is a natural credibility with those voters.
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As a father, I've tried to encourage my children to have a broader and deeper emotional life than I've had. I want my sons to be able to express their feelings about things.
