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Ann Wolfe Boxer
Kids

"I've been training fighters about 10 years. And I know I get the kids that nobody else is gonna want. I get kids who violated probation five, six, seven times. Their parents don't want 'em, the police don't want 'em - nobody wants 'em. And so I say, okay, I was like that. Nobody wanted me. Once I found out that a nobody could do what I did, I took a whole bunch of nobodies. When you take a nobody, they're open to anything, so that's what I started working with. I started working with the worst kids that nobody else wants to deal with."

Kids Parent Police
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Kids

"When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration on their faces, clearly convinced that their efforts are causing the car to do whatever it is doing, he thinks of himself and his relationship with God: God who drives along silently, gently amused, in the real driver's seat."

Real Kids God
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Kids

"The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were singing in between the notes, weeping and joyful at the same time, and I felt like their voices or something was rocking me in its bosom, holding me like a scared kid, and I opened up to that feeling-and it washed over me."

Kids Song Voice
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Kids

"Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us."

Years Children Kids
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Kids

"When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual."

Kids Night Sunday
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Kids

"Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are."

Children Kids Talking
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Kids

"It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying."

Kids
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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Kids

"Anything that improves people's expectations of a meal is good for the world. Anything that weans even one kid or one adult away from Chili's or T.G.I. Friday's is definitely a win for the good guys."

Kids Winning Friday
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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Kids

"As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that."

Children Kids Color
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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Kids

"Most of the time, I'm fighting guys who are 22 years old, former college wrestlers, athletes, kids who are in much better shape than me. Often people who are much bigger and wider than me. It can be dispiriting at first."

Kids Fighting Athlete
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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Kids

"It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me."

Thinking Kids Baby
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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Kids

"My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her to school with grilled octopus."

Kids School Daughter
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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Kids

"Italy is good in the sense that when you bring a child to a restaurant in Italy, they're happy to see it. The waiters will say "complimenti" and welcome you and dote after the kid. They don't treat you like you just brought in this horrible probably soon-to-be-squealing creature who's going to be difficult."

Children Kids Welcome
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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Kids

"In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately."

Children Kids Noise
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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
Kids

"In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a lot of screaming crying kids acting out in a restaurant in Italy. They don't put up with that."

Kids Taken Acting
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
Kids

"I think most of my lessons come from sports. That's why I always emphasise to young kids to get involved in sports because it's where you learn about discipline. It's where you learn to keep going, where if you think you can't make it, you can."

Thinking Kids Sports
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Asher Roth Rapper
Kids

"More recently I've come to terms with what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. That's why you start to see me recoiling from 'let's put out radio records, let's get rich and get on out of here.' I have gone towards more speaking to kids and putting out records that I like."

Kids Records Gone
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