![I want to feel like the things I did made a difference. That's one of the reasons I spend time [greeting people] on rope lines, because I'm always thinking, 'Maybe this interaction, particularly if I'm meeting kids, will change someone's life.' That's how I think about the work I do [as First Lady]. It's a rare spotlight. I want to make sure I don't waste it.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-want-to-feel-like-the-things-i-did-made-a-difference-thats-one-of-the-reasons.jpg)
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kids london three
Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend. Carol Vorderman
kids commitment whales
My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.
kids important projects
I grew up in the projects and I know how important it is for kids to have hope. Carlos Mencia
kids car would-be
It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars. Carlos Ghosn
kids boys years
I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts. Carl Barks
kids warrior would-be
Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent. C. S. Lewis
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We have no one to blame. That's what I wanted the kids to know. Tommy Amaker
kids
When your kids get on a bus, you want... Jim Allen
kids science
We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer. Miguel Nicolelis
thinking two size
I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two. Carre Otis
thinking media giving
Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.' Carol Roth
thinking self starting-out
I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things. Carol Leifer
thinking use language
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. Carol Shields
thinking long people
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.
thinking giving people
I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope. Carol Moseley Braun
thinking protection incumbency
I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.
thinking issues giving
And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.
thinking rights color
I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.
differences support shapes
We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.
differences words-of-wisdom pieces
It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference. Carlos Castaneda
differences helping given
The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.
differences tragedy has-beens
Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been. Abba Eban
differences stereotype reducing
If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone. Aasif Mandvi
differences good-and-bad not-interested
I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great. Aaron Sorkin
differences people fifteen
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. Charles de Lint
differences rome atheism
Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong. Charles Caleb Colton
differences law grace
Relationship is the difference between grace and law. Charles Stanley