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"Our system works. Over time, people will live better and better. We have a system that unleashes human potential, and now China has a system that unleashes human potential. We will have interruptions. We overshoot and undershoot sometimes, but your kids and grandkids will live better than you. Over time, we move ahead at a pretty damn rapid rate."
"I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience. The best experience because I was, like, 'Oh, now I know why kids are so depressed.' But it was the worst experience because I was depressed."
"I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the sporty good girl."
"What made me want to be an actor? Ah, I'm not really sure, to be honest. I was one of those little kids who did it around school, and then I got to university and made lots of bad plays and short films, and then midway through that, it suddenly dawned on me that this might be a satisfying way to earn a living, if that was at all feasible."
"A lot of young kids like myself use Instagram because it has swag - its more personal, and your friends generate it."
"What I've discovered from working with my father is that I'm still learning. I'm just a kid in this business. And I've seen from my father transitioning into being a director, that's where the power lies. And, like he says, it's feast or famine for an actor. If you're not creating your own material, then you're just fighting for whatever's out there. I definitely have the desire to go to the other side."
"When I was a kid, I liked the newer music that was coming out. I have never really felt confined by any style of music. I would play in bands that were soul bands or that played standards - any kind of music that I enjoyed playing."
"To have kids and not be there every night is tough."
"I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid."
"Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective."
"My stepfather stepped in where no man would've stepped in - six kids, five of them boys - and that's heroic."
"I'm proud to have opened [two] schools in Africa and one in Jamaica [through the Serena Williams Fund and its partners]. I was given a lot. I was given two parents. That's already starting above a lot of kids. And then I was given the opportunity to play tennis and parents who supported that. I feel I can give back."
"Will Smith is young, hes cool and my kids have his CDs."
"I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball."
"Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?"
"If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die."
"Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in."
"If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much."
"Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh."
"Remember that introverts react not only to new people, but also to new places and events. So don’t mistake a child’s caution in new situations for an inability to relate to others. He’s recoiling from novelty or overstimulation, not from human contact. Introverts are just as likely as the next kid to seek others’ company, though often in smaller doses"
