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Children Quotes
"We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat."
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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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"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others."
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"We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further strategies in place to ensure this."
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"I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring."
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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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"The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious."
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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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"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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"There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial."
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"I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children."
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"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them."
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"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next."
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"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me."
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"I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS."
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"Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible."
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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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"We children learned responsibility automatically."
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"I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in."
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"We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up."
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"Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can."
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"We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice."
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"If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them."
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"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."
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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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"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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"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"
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"The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?"
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"I have a very open line of communication with both my children."
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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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"Having children really changes your priorities."
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"I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children."
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"Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are."
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"To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare."
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"Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?"
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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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"I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it."
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"I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year."
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"Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child."
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