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" I don't remember my first trip, but I do remember when my mom took me to Disney World in Orlando. It wasn't the rides but Epcot Center that most fascinated me. It made me want to see those countries that are represented there for real. "

Lisa Ling

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" I never run hills. My quads are already big enough. I don't run to build muscle; I do it for cardio. "

" Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding. "

" I'm determined to raise a strong girl. "

" I had a planned C-section, and I cried the entire day before I had the baby. "

" At the end of the day, TV is supposed to be entertaining. But it's important for me that there's some take-away value from it. "

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" I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China. "

" I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting. "

" One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful. "

" I don't cook anything. "

Lisa Ling

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" Our time on Earth is so random. "

" I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means. "

" I have not watched 'Honey Boo Boo'. "

" I have a zillion bottles of hot sauce. I love Trader Joe's jalapeno. The whole right side of my fridge is filled with hot sauce. "

" It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity. "

" You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail. I'm a big advocate of therapy and third-party intervention. "

" I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales. "

" Personally, I've always known that I wanted to go back to work because I'm confident, and I'm certain that my daughter will have a better mother in me if I'm doing the things that I'm excited about and that I'm passionate about. "

Lisa Ling

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" The best education I have ever received was through travel. "

" My first job in TV was hosting this young teen magazine show, and all these high school teenagers showed up from all over Sacramento, California, and they chose four of us to host the show, two boys and two girls. And of the two girls, I was kind of the perky smart one and the other girl was the pretty one. "

" We're doing a partial green nursery and trying as hard as we can to do as much organic stuff for our nursery as we can. "

" The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been. "

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

" There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child. "

" When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior. "

" There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white. "

" Make your relationship your number-one priority. "

" Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliche, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts. "

" I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will. "

" I started running when I was 21 years old and studying in China. "