Kelly Clarkson Quotes
My kids are obviously growing up very privileged, but I want them to have a servant's heart. We do community service as a family, and I also call them out on things like getting impatient when they stand in line - because they hardly ever have to. But that's just the reality of what they were born into.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.
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As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.
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I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.
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I never have kids in movies or in TV shows.
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My kids are obviously growing up very privileged, but I want them to have a servant's heart. We do community service as a family, and I also call them out on things like getting impatient when they stand in line - because they hardly ever have to. But that's just the reality of what they were born into.
