Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going.
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One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.
FLAVOR FLAV I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.
DOUGLAS FEAVER I can't conceive of nursing babies and taking care of children and writing, too. I know there ar...
ELLEN GILCHRIST If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal...
BETTY WHITE My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is li...
NATASHA LEGGERO These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them wha...
SCOTT IAN When people visit me at autograph conventions and signings, they always say, 'You just don't...
BETSY PALMER I don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles.
TRACY MORGAN A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the ne...
JEFFREY KLUGER Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don't wa...
TONY BUZAN As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit ...
SARAH MACLEAN One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
DEYTH BANGER I'm insanely girly. I like having the door opened for me. I want to cook dinner for my boyfriend...
GINNIFER GOODWIN Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don...
VIRGINIA POSTREL How about 'anvil babies' - because that is what anchor babies are around the necks of the Am...
ANN COULTER I don't care why they love me, as long as they love me. I think people respect me because they f...
DAVID HASSELHOFF New Year's resolutions generally don't work for me. Or I don't work for them. I make the...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate ...
AYN RAND Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.
JACLYN SMITH There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don...
AARON SPELLING Eulogies are like babies. They're more pleasurable to create than to deliver.
BOB BLAZICH One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive ...
PETER L. BERGER I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
OLIVER REED Future's not everybody. The people who are taking my style are like my babies. I've got a tr...
NAYVADIUS CASH You can't just take an aspirin and sit around and have 12 donuts and think, 'I took my aspir...
CORBIN BERNSEN What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an inc...
TRACEY EMIN We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don...
DONALD TRUMP Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't s...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
QUEEN VICTORIA Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken ca...
AMY HECKERLING I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was...
BARRY WHITE What a fucking destiny is that... or fate or whaatever is it?
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COme on isn't it k...
DEYTH BANGER To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a prof...
NANCY GRACE Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off the...
JILLIAN MICHAELS I don't really get into that whole red-blue-conservative-liberal because I can't tell them a...
ERIC CHURCH More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is ...
JOHN HOWE I'd describe myself as a saver, but just sometimes I can spend like a kicking horse! Ryman is th...
JOANNA LUMLEY Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's n...
CARA BUONO Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they...
JEANE KIRKPATRICK Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.
HOWARD DEAN I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, a...
OLIVIA COLMAN I don't have the option of getting fat. I like to try as much of our products as I can. Our samp...
KEVIN PLANK I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the ro...
OLIVIA THIRLBY Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to ...
ANDY WARHOL Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Free...
JAMES PATTERSON Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.
PATRICIA POLACCO I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it's dark outside? ...
HOLLY COMBS I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it's dark outside? ...
HOLLY MARIE COMBS People don't have to leave (babies) in dangerous areas. They can safely surrender them.
ESTELLA OLGUIN To my irritation, you still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the page...
NICK HARKAWAY I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul...
BLYTHE DANNER I cannot love, I want to be alone
I will not love, I want to be alone
LAURA MARLING I didn't expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so ofte...
SHAKIRA What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any m...
CHESTY PULLER I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know any...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge a...
MICHELLE OBAMA My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms tha...
ELLSWORTH KELLY You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continuall...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU Taking care of our families isn't just about putting food on the table today. It's about ens...
JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I...
CHERYL COLE Babies are always more trouble than you thought — and more wonderful.
CHARLES OSGOOD If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conser...
DONALD SADOWAY I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I was...
DEIRDRE O'KANE Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that ou...
JONATHAN POWELL I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because i...
VINCENT CASSEL No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And...
WILLIAM BERNBACH Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really ...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON (There are so many If's like Why's, why there, if there... but why?? Look again I say this word!) DEYTH BANGER I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, bu...
BOSS TWEED There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real li...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one anot...
WAYNE GRETZKY Being a grandparent doesn't interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they're your own...
ANGELA BOWIE These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.
BRENDA SUTTON ROSE I think the average citizen is going to see no less than a $1,500 or more increase in what it's ...
ANN ROBINSON A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like ...
CHARLES DICKENS I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.
JOSS WHEDON Don't be irresponsible in your risks, but as long as the project can fail without it causing the...
DEAN KAMEN I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,...
NATHAN FILLION Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go...
STEVEN WRIGHT I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me,...
BILLIE PIPER I'm sure every designer has a certain person in mind who they would ideally like to wear their c...
KATE UPTON They just have so many challenges, from babies to elderly, that the least we can do is help,
ANDREA COOK Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the rig...
SAMMY SOSA Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communi...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY Babies can be very stressful to take care of. The crying and the pooping are extremely hard for some...
JAMES CRAWFORD A sister is the one person you can call in the middle of the night when you can't sleep or the o...
DEBORAH TANNEN You can't change nothing unless you want to change it, and then if you don't like whatever s...
BLAC CHYNA You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys li...
HAROLD PRINCE It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say....
MICHAEL JACKSON Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and ...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhe...
MELINDA GATES They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.
PAUL REISER In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. Yo...
NICOLAS SARKOZY People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an i...
EUGENE FAMA We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m...
BEN CARSON The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of th...
DAN O'BRIEN The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them...
LAURA MOSER You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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ALISON SWEENEY Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. an...
ALISON SWEENEY One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to...
ALISON SWEENEY My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we ne...
ALISON SWEENEY Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerf...
ALISON JACKSON I do a lot of cardio. I think it's super important, especially for women. I don't have a tre...
ALISON SWEENEY I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoon...
ALISON JACKSON Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about t...
ALISON BRIE I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but ...
ALISON GOODMAN I just want to act. I just want to do the work.
ALISON LOHMAN I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.
ALISON LOHMAN I don't know... I don't want people to know everything about me.
ALISON LOHMAN I did musicals from about age 10 to 18.
ALISON LOHMAN For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard ...
ALISON LOHMAN But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter.
ALISON LOHMAN But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and per...
ALISON LOHMAN The competition was Coke vs. Pepsi 10 years ago. Our business has evolved over the past 10 years, an...
ALISON LEWIS