John Niven Quotes

I love my children and care greatly for their future. If they decide they just want to loaf around for a bit between the ages of 16 and 25, that's perfectly fine by me. I did it, and I'm doing fine, thanks. Sometimes 'leaving kids to their own devices' is the best thing for them.

John Niven

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LoveFutureChildrenBestMeCare

Music, in its true essence, has got no language. You don't listen to anybody because he is black or white or because he belongs to a particular geographical region. You listen to him because you like what he does.

Adnan Sami

MusicBlackLanguageYouWhiteTrue

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.

Jimmy Johnson

TreatPersonWillBecomeWhereHe

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

Jesse Ventura

PlantLookIndustrialCriminalGet

I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.

Robert Rodriguez

FriendsKnowCookWhoHowMany

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.

Michael Chang

MeEventsWatchingOpenPlayingCNN

Blues is life, you know? An appreciation for the depth of life and the fact that hard times strengthen you and make you ready - blues, a lot of times, is about the loss of love.

Stephen Henderson

LifeLoveAppreciationLossYou

The thing that's so tough about 'Broken Skull Challenge' is you're going head-to-head with another human being who may or may not be stronger than you and may or may not want it more than you.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

ChallengeBrokenToughStrongerYou

I just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.

Mary-Louise Parker

WantMakeJustKidsOrganize

A lot of Polish and Russian Jews had this experience: they would emigrate, thinking they were on their way to New York. Then their captains would stop in Dublin and say, 'Everybody off.' They would leave, and by the time they discovered they weren't in America, they didn't have enough money to continue.

Rosemary Mahoney

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Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Michel Houellebecq

ChangeHistoryChange The WorldIdeas

Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

PassionI AmSweetMayI May NotAm

If I were to ask you who the first million-pound show winner was on British TV, you'd probably go for Judith Keppel. She was, indeed, the first 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' contestant to win £1 million, but the first one on TV was actually Clare Barwick, who won £1 million on Chris Evans' show 'TFI Friday.'

Jasper Carrott

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