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• I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Thinking, Ignorant

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• Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you're the kind of person who's going to have that feeling about a dog you're definitely going to have that about a child.

  Joan Didion

  Dog, Children, People

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• My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive.

  Bill Gates

  Dad, School, Successful

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• I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.

  Kid Rock

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Establishment

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.

  Wayne Dyer

  Trying, Littles, Tiny

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are very demographically specific, who they appeal to and who their fans are, we're the antithesis of that. If you see your younger brother or a parent of yours or a neighbor at most rock concerts, that's not cool but with us and kids, it's a tribal gathering. Whether it's kids or neighbors - they're all part of a secret society.

  Paul Stanley

  Brother, Kids, Rocks

  "Kiss: Miley Cyrus is 'being treated unfairly'". Interview with Daniel D'Addario, www.salon.com. September 12, 2013.

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• My parents divorced when I was a boy and I have since devoted my life to healing families, which is what my TV show 'Shalom in the Home' is all about.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Healing, Home, Boys

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I think just what my parents instilled in me was hard work and being able to always go out there and focus and be 100%. I took that work ethic into the NFL and everyday I always gave 100% and never wanted anything to be handed to me. I wanted to earn it. And every time I stepped on that football field during practice I wanted to leave that football field with learning something about what the practice was about for me that day...

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Hard Work, Thinking

  "The Secrets To Jerry Rice’s Hall Of Fame Football Career Can Be Found In Crawford, Mississippi". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• My parents split up when I was five, and that changed my life as well. I wasn't used to seeing them away from each other. I had to get used to seeing my dad without my mom. Those things affected the music that I make.

  Joey Badass

  Mom, Dad, Splits

  Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. June 22, 2012.

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• My parents are both definitely supportive of my career.They are both big fans of rap. They are really what influenced me.

  Joey Badass

  Rap, Careers, Supportive

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut, from third world to inner city to my parents working their way out of being secretaries and janitors to professors and real-estate people. They've shown me a path of perseverance and hard work in a peaceable way.

  Kenna

  Perseverance, Real, Hard Work

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think it's helpful for kids to know that their parents weren't perfect, that they messed up and learned from their mistakes. So be open about some of your own struggles or express gratitude that your kids are taking advantage of the opportunities they have instead of squandering many of them, the way you did.

  Emily Yoffe

  Gratitude, Mistake, Struggle

  "Advice from Slate's 'Dear Prudence': Telling teens the truth, bridesmaid in white, no grief, mom is a bully and more". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 2, 2011.

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• You're born in a certain time, your budvi, or the way to mind, or the psyche of it all, understands the time in which you were born, and so already information is adapted by the mind of a person born in a certain time, that's why we're so different from our parents, and our parents from theirs.

  Maya Tiwari

  Mind, Different, Information

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.

  Beau Willimon

  Children, Hard Work, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• After you have loss in your life and after you experience something like losing your parents, the greatest gift of that was it prepared me for [anything]. Nothing else is as scary, and certainly stand-up comedy is not as scary as sitting there with your mom and having to have last conversations and things like that. It's heavy stuff, but it's enlightening because it makes me think I shouldn't be afraid of sharing ideas and thoughts with people. It's the yin and the yang of life.

  Dane Cook

  Mom, Loss, Thinking

  "Dane Cook Talks PLANES, Working on a Disney Animated Movie, Learning Aviation Jargon, and PLANES Sequel". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 6, 2013.

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• For me, there were a few things in the Spider-Man comics that I thought were really interesting. There's this story about Peter's parents and where he came from, and I thought that it was really interesting to explore the emotional consequence of someone whose parents had left them, at a very young age.

  Marc Webb

  Men, Emotional, Interesting

  "Emma Stone and Marc Webb Talk THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, Honoring the Marvel Icon, and Why Andrew Garfield is the Perfect Spider-Man". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2012.

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• No parent should be denied from their Scouting - their son's Scouting experience simply because those parents happen to be gay.

  Gwen Ifill

  Son, Gay, Should

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I look at young kids today I just don't believe it, parents take away the Gameboy and they're suicidal. They cannot take the pressure.

  Jackie Chan

  Believe, Suicidal, Kids

  "The Karate Kid - Jackie Chan interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.

  Jackie Chan

  Country, Art, Children

  "The Karate Kid - Jackie Chan interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I have dogs in my house and much like teenagers at some point, they leave the parents. Even though they're in the same house, they live independently. I think that's how I live with the Chihuahuas.

  George Lopez

  Dog, Teenager, Thinking

  "George Lopez Gives the Lowdown on Beverly Hills Chihuahua". Interview with Brian Gallagher, www.movieweb.com. February 27, 2009.

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• Sometimes [people] say the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. In my case, I am pretty fortunate. [ My kids]'re pretty balanced, cool kids, going through pretty much the same thing all the other kids go through. There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do. I don't think they know a lot about what I do, other than that I am in this crazy band, Mötley Crüe.

  Nikki Sixx

  Crazy, Fall, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Hands, Elements

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.78

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• All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Children, Growing Up, Blessed

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• Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Family, Children, Freedom

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1958). “Philosophy of right”

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• The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Simple, Law

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