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"My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."
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"I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself."
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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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"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."
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"Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life."
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"The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth."
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"I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib."
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"Never tell a child that something it's too hard."
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"I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we've done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution."
Building
"What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities."
Time
"A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives."
Money
"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
"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
"You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future."
Future
"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
"And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake."
Mistake
"I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family."
Family
"One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century."
Leadership
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