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"Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults."
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"Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters."
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"Cullen is up there killing my children. He's killing everyone."
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"More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart " more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi " more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton."
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"One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking."
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"There is no overt rivalry among our children."
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"We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them."
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"My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish."
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"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."
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"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."
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"It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children."
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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible."
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"My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up."
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"I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories."
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"Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that."
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"I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible."
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"But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing."
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"Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time."
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"Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing."
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"I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet."
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