Adam Gopnik Quotes
What typically emerges from looking at kids, gifted and ordinary, is that, from the kids’ point of view, accomplishment, that is, the private sense of mastery, the hard thing suddenly made easy, counts for far more in their inner lives than does the achievement-the competition won, the reward secured.
Adam Gopnik
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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
Adam Carolla
We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
Jack Williamson
Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
Nancy Gibbs
I love Twitter.
Dan Jenkins
I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
Zaha Hadid
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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.
Vanessa Paradis
My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
Ozwald Boateng
Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.
Yolanda Adams
I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
Florence Griffith Joyner
I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
Nate Torrence
Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
Viggo Mortensen
Sometimes who is going to be taking care of all of my kids on any given day is more complicated than any trade agreement.
Chrystia Freeland
The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.
Flannery O'Connor
One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.
Marco Polo
I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.
Zoe Lister-Jones
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
Louis C. K.
What typically emerges from looking at kids, gifted and ordinary, is that, from the kids’ point of view, accomplishment, that is, the private sense of mastery, the hard thing suddenly made easy, counts for far more in their inner lives than does the achievement-the competition won, the reward secured.
Adam Gopnik
