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"I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual."
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"Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me."

"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."

"I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up."

"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."

"I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!"

"My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up."

"L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who."

"Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up."

"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."

"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."
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"Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio."

"It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world."

"I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual."
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