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Children Quotes
"You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow."
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"I pitched my last children's show presentation in the mid 1980's. The era of locally produced children's shows was over and the networks were not and are not interested in children's television."
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"For Children: You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a chicken. Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple. The fried egg isn't properly a fried egg until it's been put in a frying pan and fried. This is something you wouldn't do to a Friday, of course, though you might do it on a Friday. You can also fry eggs on a Thursday, if you like, or on a cooker. It's all rather complicated, but it makes a kind of sense if you think about it for a while."
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"Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment."
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"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
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"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up."
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"Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?"
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"There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial."
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"The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children."
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"We children learned responsibility automatically."
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"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again."
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"The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters."
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"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends."
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"The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another."
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"Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man."
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"Having children really changes your priorities."
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"Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error."
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"I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children."
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"And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done."
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"Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives."
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"Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch."
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"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."
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"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"
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"I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children."
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"There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me."
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"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others."
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"We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice."
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"Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here."
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"We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese."
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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."
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"We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off."
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"Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible."
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"One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play."
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"Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution."
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"Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children."
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"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next."
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