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Kids Quotes


"Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it."


"I think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course it's personal preference, I think Andre now is a great role model for the kids. He has started training differently than he was before, and so on and so on."


"Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms."


"It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids."


"The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them."
Kids,


"But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us."
Kids,


"I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me."


"When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit."


"I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts."


"I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well."


"I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids."


"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."
Kids,


"I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV."
Kids,


"You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!"


"Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids."


"I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing."


"We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed."


"I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant'."


"Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school."


"Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall."


"But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television."


"Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids were very aware that it was filming and that was his show and they were very much on the lookout for that."


"Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them."


"White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it."


"I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids."


"I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting."


"I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school."


"And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school."


"I think a lot of the problem is that at 8 o'clock there's nothing on for kids."
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