"Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline."
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"People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family."
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"If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children."
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"Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children."
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"Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door."
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"In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary."
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"The rich get richer and the poor get - children."
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"Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play."
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"Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders."
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"~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important; I just have to position things differently.~"
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"I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be easier to believe that the child doesn't come with something."
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"It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted."
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"I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection."
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"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories."
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"How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!"
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"I'm constantly exploring spirituality, sexuality, different aspects of love, whether it's romantic love or the love you have for your children. And love can be as devastating and destructive as it can be rejuvenating and life-giving. I guess I try to capture all of that."
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"It's weird juggling children in a rhinestone outfit."
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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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"If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality."
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"If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children."
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