Quotes About Priorities

I've spent my life being responsible, building a career, and waiting to find the right partner with whom to start a family.

I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.

I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.

I was a partner at Pricewaterhouse before I got my four year degree.

I want time for my career, my kids, and my partner.

In fact, most married couples who live together would be quite happy to only see their partner twice a year, and to just worry about the color of their seats!

Serious relationships draw us away from the circle of friends that seemed so adequate, so fulfilling. Marriage cements these inward movements. Children draw partners closer, but they can also draw you further away from the friends and lives you once knew.

Part of the problem in today's world is that many men are taught that they have to 'make it' before they should even consider committed to a healthy partnership.

Family means the most to me. To me, that's the life I chose, that's the life I wanted, that's the life I dreamed of. Of course, I want cars, jewelry, a nice house and all those type of things, but the key values to me, is growing and being in a partnership, a family.

I feel like I get opportunities that most people my age don't get. But, like, I can't do what most 18-year-olds do. Like, I can't go out partying all the time: I have to work and get up early.

When I was 23, I didn't have much of an interest in politics. All of my interests were in partying and meeting girls and doing stand-up. That's all I cared about. Now, when you have a kid and stuff, you start watching the news and say, 'They shouldn't take money away from this education department.' You start having much more exact opinions.

When I went off to college in 1997, I didn't go back and watch 'Conan.' I was out partying and dating women.

Partying isn't as important to me anymore like it was when I was younger.

When you're famous and you're young then you go partying, and you go to all the parties and stuff, I wasn't into that.

I've changed my whole life around, I've devoted my life for tennis instead of partying. I'm very happy, you know, I'm 27, I really feel like I have another 5 years left in me, and I still, honestly feel like I have still got the best tennis, best things ahead of me.

Your 20s are for partying, your 30s - if you choose to have kids or are lucky enough to have them - are when you give yourself over to childcare, and then in your 40s it just becomes about you a bit more.

My lifestyle is completely different from what it was before, I am not 23 years old anymore, I am focused on training and fighting, not night clubs and partying.

Partying? I don't really think about that.

I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work.

I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.

I passed up a lot of work 'cause a lot of movies that may be out there right now I passed em up because there may have been a lot of cussin' in 'em.

My parents were very proud of me. After they passed, my career doesn't mean as much to me.

I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.

I have passed on a lot of things that would have been extremely lucrative, because they were nothing else.