Babysitting Quotes

• My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Jobs, People, Band

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• Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

  Jane Fonda

  Thinking, Needs

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• I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.

  Monique Coleman

  School, Kids, Night

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• When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.

  J. B. Smoove

  Kids, Dosage, Versions

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• K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Parent, Can Do

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• I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.

  Anne Hathaway

  Jobs, Acting, Lucky

  "Anne Hathaway learns from a legend in 'Prada'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. June 21, 2006.

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• I did babysit a little bit when I was young. I prefer babysitting for babies. I always loved babies. I was not as great with kids that wanted to be entertained and that wanted to talk.

  Ari Graynor

  Baby, Kids, Littles

  "Shades of Graynor". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.

  Josh Hartnett

  Brother, Thinking, Littles

  "Josh Hartnett Interview - RESURRECTING THE CHAMP". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 21, 2007.

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• I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.

  Matthew Perry

  Couple, School, Kids

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• It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.

  Anne Lamott

  Twilight, Waiting, Parent

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• Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Educational, School, Parent

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• All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without the job.

  Adam Horowitz

  Jobs, Entrepreneur, Wanted

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• Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

  Albert Collins

  Singing, Singing The Blues

  "Character: Albert Collins". "Adventures in Babysitting", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

  Kevin Kelly

  Children, Let It Go, Lines

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• Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.

  Norman Doidge

  Reading, Health, Games

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• I spent my summers in Connecticut scooping ice cream and babysitting.

  Grace Gummer

  Summer, Ice Cream, Connecticut

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I still have my same babysitting job, I babysit twice a week.

  Lana Del Rey

  Jobs, Trust No One, Week

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• As girls are given dollies and pushchairs while little boys are frowned upon for picking them up; while men are 'congratulated' for occasionally 'babysitting' their own children and women are castigated for daring to combine motherhood and career; while baby changing facilities are provided in women's toilets but rarely in the men's, is it any wonder we tend to take on the roles society stereotypically pushes on us when it comes to caregiving?

  Laura Bates

  Girl, Baby, Children

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• In the clubs, the entertainment and the restaurant business are at war with each other. You get crowds that are not the greatest, and it becomes like a babysitting job, rather than doing what you want to do. I have a more deliberate pacing in my act, and having a half interested audience is death. They have to hear what I'm saying for it to pay off.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Jobs, War, Doing What You Want

  Source: hollywoodchicago.com

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• There are so many places, particularly right now. Go and volunteer at a food bank. If you play the piano, go play the piano in an Alzheimer's home. Or read in an Alzheimer's home. Help a military family with babysitting. The opportunities are endless. People often think 'They want me?' or 'I can be of help?' What we try to say here is 'Be who you are.'Feel that, live it and pass it on.

  Maria Shriver

  Military, Home, Opportunity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested. No?” Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Volleyball, Believe, Player

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Understanding, Sound, Gabriel

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• In fact, in the last job I had before coming to the White House - I remember this clearly - I was on maternity leave with Sasha, still trying to figure out what to do with my life, and I got a call for an interview for this position, a senior position at the hospitals. And I thought, okay, here we go. So I had to scramble to look for babysitting, and couldn't find one.

  Michelle Obama

  Senior, Jobs, White

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• I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Jobs, Hunting, Clothes

  "Natasha Bedingfield Flashback". www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2008.

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• I'm not saying all seniors should be running a city or running a business, but I am saying seniors are good for a lot more than simply running a bath, baking cookies or babysitting grandchildren.

  Hazel McCallion

  Senior, Running, Memorable

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