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"I would say that my parents were supportive of me."
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"Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child."
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"I may deserve your disappointment as well as a lecture and strict discipline, but what I need is your understanding, your guidance, and your unconditional love."
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"If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love."
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"First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see."
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"Parents are labelling, criticizing and reproaching the child on any account."
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"I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous."
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"My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition."
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"Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It's called being an example."
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"There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this."
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"For parents, it is important to respect the personality of a child."
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"The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper."
Society
"Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about."
Family
"And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you."
Family
"I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me."
Home
"My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did."
Business
"I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company."
Life
"I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about."
Life
"From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness."
Business
"If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit."
People
"If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right."
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