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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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
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Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.
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The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.
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A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.
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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.
