"The simple act of caring is heroic."
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"K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things."
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"All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance."
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"When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA."
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"I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you."
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"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose."
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"I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay."
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"There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them."
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"Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word ‘no’ mean to a child? Almost nothing."
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"Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent."
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"I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid."
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"Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway. ...Parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards."
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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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"Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable."
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"Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed."
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"your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you."
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"I think that there’s too much sugar in the world and not enough salt. Kids want to be challenged. Humans want to aspire to something. You don’t win in life and you don’t win in athletics with softness or selfishness."
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"One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break."
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"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."
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"SAD, BUT ONE DAY OUR KIDS WILL HAVE TO VISIT MUSEUMS TO SEE WHAT A LADY LOOKS LIKE."
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