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Kids

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
Kids

"In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that that’s how Melville did it."

Writing Mean Kids
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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
Kids

"When I was growing up, I didn't really know much about being popular or cliques or anything like that. In elementary school and middle school, you start to kind of realize what it's all about. There are cool kids, and then there's you, and you're just trying to figure out where you fit in.I learned a lot about acceptance and rejection,Those are the themes that you'll find spread throughout my music and weaved in throughout all of the lyrics. I really know what it's like to be accepted, and I also know what it's like to be rejected. And those are lessons I learned in Wyomissing."

Kids School Growing Up
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Teresa Palmer Actress
Kids

"I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around."

Running Kids Dad
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Ray Allen Basketball Player
Kids

"I tell the young kids, you have eight or nine months of the year to play basketball and the rest of the year you can relax. So, you've got to be ready. It doesn't last forever."

Kids Basketball Eight
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Scott Adams Cartoonist
Kids

"The children are our future. And that is why, ultimately, we're screwed unless we do something about it. If you haven't noticed, the children who are our future are good-looking, but they aren't all that bright. As dense as they might be, they will eventually notice that adults have spent all the money, spread disease, and turned the planet into a smoky, filthy ball of death. We're raising an entire generation of dumb, pissed-off kids who know where the handguns are kept. This is not a good recipe for a happy future."

Children Kids Future
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Tim Robbins Actor, Director
Kids

"It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia."

Kids Father Guy
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Tim Scott Politician
Kids

"As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being - drifting in the wrong direction, having really no hope. And being able to harness that frustration was incredibly valuable in my life. That's one of the reasons I focus so consistently on the foundation of education, because it helps to eviscerate those things that - unemployment, high jobless rates, poverty."

Kids School Frustration
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Tommy Lee Musician, Drummer
Kids

"When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine."

Kids Music Dance
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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Kids

"Let your face speak what's in your heart. When my kids walk in the room my face says I'm glad to see them."

Heart Kids Rooms
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Trey Parker Animator, Writer, Director
Kids

"My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that."

People Kids Married
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Tom Cole Artist
Kids

"Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play with my feet and other kids' feet, and that was his thing."

Play Kids Feet
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Kids

"In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball."

Country Kids Baseball
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Stephen King Author
Kids

"Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic. It says, "Nobody cares and you have to look out for yourself and if you don't, you'll die." These two things work against each other. I think most kids are very frightened of their parents, and that's what all fairy tales reflect: Parents will fail you and you'll be left on your own. But, of course, everything comes out right in the end and the parents take you back."

Thinking Two Kids
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Robert Shaw Conductor, Musician
Kids

"My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, its only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water."

Kids School Responsibility
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Susan Cain Author, Speaker
Kids

"INTROVERTS are especially vulnerable to challenges like marital tension, a parent’s death, or abuse. They’re more likely than their peers to react to these events with depression, anxiety, and shyness. Indeed, about a quarter of Kagan’s high-reactive kids suffer from some degree of the condition known as “social anxiety disorder,” a chronic and disabling form of shyness."

Kids Parent Anxiety Disorder
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