"If anything, we haven't changed much since we [with Venuse Williams] were kids. We really are the same people."
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"I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age."
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"Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so drawn to something lovely in music and in movement, and yet they encounter a world full of judgment and criticism of 11-year-old artists and bodies."
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"In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time.... I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion."
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"Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it."
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"I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid."
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"I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion."
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"I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever."
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"I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one."
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"Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them."
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"There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren’t."
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"It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem."
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"Before i was jumped in i remember Lucky telling us how being in a gang was like having a second family... a family who would be there when your own family wasn't. They would offer protection and security. It sounded perfect to a kid who'd lost his father."
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"What are you boys doing?” she asks, as if we’re still little kids messing around. “Arguin’,” Carlos says matter-of-factly."
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"Having a kid, it makes you slow down; when you're walking with a toddler to pick up a leaf it can take a half hour. You've never spent that time looking at a leaf before, having that kind of interaction. So I think it does make you change the way you look things."
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"Kids are anchors of mothers' life"
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"I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi."
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"I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams."
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"My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it."
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"I've been doing music for a pretty long time, since I was a kid, and I must have been around 10 years old when I started playing shows with my siblings."
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