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"I've always had a sense of responsibility - I think that comes with being the oldest kid in the family. Now, I'm getting more comfortable with acting a little younger and carefree because I've been so responsible my whole life. I'm letting go a little."
"I'm sure my priorities will change. My mother was such a great mother and is still such a big part of my life. I want my kids to feel that way about me. I want to be in their lives. I don't want to be away a lot, so I'm sure I'll slow down. But there are so many amazing people who do both."
"I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell."
"The kids are a big part of my schedule."
"Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about."
"The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids."
"In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in."
"Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing."
"Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that."
"The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids."
"The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'"
"In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games."
"Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids."
"The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available."
"I was very healthy from a young age. I was always known as the healthy kid in my group of friends. My mom had us drink barley-grass powder, and I've taken vitamins and fish oil and multivitamins since I was a kid. My mom just had me doing that for a long, long time. And I enjoy eating healthy. It's not a chore to me to eat healthy food."
"Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid"
"It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24."
"Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it."
"When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain."
"I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way."
