Ursula Burns Quotes
Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.
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I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways.
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There's a big thing in Canada that parents need to talk to their children about drugs and sex. I don't think talking to your kids about war is any less important than that.
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
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You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.
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I'm a little bit anally retentive, a little bit OCD, but a whole lot clean.
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Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
