I do not suffer from Autism, but I do suffer from the way you treat me.
Brad PittRead
Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.
Interpretation
Fatherhood offers a profound change in perspective and fulfillment like no other achievement.
In this quote, Brad Pitt expresses that becoming a father is the most significant and transformative experience of his life. He compares fatherhood to various creative accomplishments, emphasizing that no matter how successful or artistic one may be, the experience of raising children provides a unique sense of wonder and purpose that surpasses all other endeavors.
In practice
During a speech about fatherhood at a community event, I might say, 'As Brad Pitt once said, 'Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did,' to highlight the joy of being a dad.
I do not suffer from Autism, but I do suffer from the way you treat me.
I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself.
If I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.
It might be a very human thing across the board, but we, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.
There's a constant chatter in our house, whether it's giggling or screaming or crying or banging. I love it. I love it. I love it. I hate it when they're gone. I hate it. Maybe it's nice to be in a hotel room for a day - 'Oh, nice, I can finally read a paper.' But then, by the next day, I miss that cacophony, all that life.
Equality, absolutely, that's what defines us. It's what makes us great. If it doesn't sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that's us. We're equal
parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.
The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.'
The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.
It takes a Mother’s Love to make a house a home, a place to be remembered, no matter where we roam.
The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized, and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
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