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"I've noticed that girls between like 20 and 30 seem to know 'Can't Hardly Wait.' I got the goth kids who know 'Buffy.' I got this wide spectrum of people who range from like 8 to 13 who seem to know 'Scooby-Doo.' Then I get the international people who seem to know 'Austin Powers' and 'The Italian Job."
"It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind."
"Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end."
"To come into camp and have my defensive coordinator say you won't be touched, I feel like a kid all over again."
"No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid."
"Parents needs to spend more time with who they're trusting their kids with. That's one of the nuggets going forward. Find out who these coaches are. Figure out their environment and what kind of problems they have, and see if you want your child involved with that."
"Somebody has to give a wakeup call to our coaching world to ask them real questions and show them that if you have kids, then you know there is no way you can talk to somebody else like that, because that's somebody's child."
"One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort."
"I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting."
"When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life."
"Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways."
"You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it."
"Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally."
"I have kids who buy tickets for my show... How could I take their money and ignore their problems?"
"I think America just needs to get real when it comes to the way our kids speak and communicate. They need to understand what happens in rap."
"Every kid wants to give their family a better life."
"Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it."
"But in some ways I think it's braver to do it like this. And, to an extent, you know what? The worst that can happen is that everyone says, 'Well, that was dreadful, she should have stuck to writing for kids' and I can take that. So, yeah, I'll put it out there, and if everyone says, 'Well, that's shockingly bad – back to wizards with you', then obviously I won't be throwing a party. But I will live. I will live."
"They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting."
"Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to."
