If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.
Interpretation
Having a child brings a responsibility to ensure their well-being, requiring parents to take care of themselves.
This quote emphasizes the moral obligation that comes with parenthood. It suggests that being a parent is not only about nurturing and guiding a child but also about ensuring one's own well-being to fulfill that role effectively. The responsibility of raising a child inherently means prioritizing one's life and health to provide stability and support in their upbringing.
In practice
During a parenting seminar, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of self-care for parents.
Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing, but in cases of genocide you can't just be neutral. You can't just say, 'Well, this little boy was shot in the head and killed in besieged Sarajevo and that guy over there did it, but maybe he was upset because he had an argument with his wife.' No, there is no equality there, and we had to tell the truth.
I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.
And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.
In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like.
I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
Only after Mom went missing did you realize that her stories were piled inside you, in endless stacks. Mom's everyday life used to go on in a repeating loop, without a break. Her everyday words, which you didn't think deeply about and sometimes dismissed as useless when she was with you, awoke in your heart, creating tidal waves.
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
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