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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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"If you are not aware of the goal of your living, what will you do you when your children grow up and leave the house?"
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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 is no experience like having children.' That's all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children."
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"To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture."
Society
"As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning."
Winning
"I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little."
Parenting
"You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset."
Resilience
"The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them."
Work
"Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics."
Dream
"As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain."
Pain
"If you never give up, you'll be successful."
Success
"There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits."
Being
"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."
Man
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