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"Legislatively, the thing I'm most proud of is healthcare, and I will continue to be most proud of it because not only do we have 30 million people who are going to get healthcare, we've got six million young people who are able to stay on their parents' plan until they're 26."
"I think the best way it happens is if parents say, this is important for educating my child."
"My family are very supportive and always have been. They weren't the kind of parents that pushed me into it. I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different. I'm really lucky to have them because they let me make my own decisions."
"To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future."
"My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles."
"The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event."
"Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it."
"The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel."
"What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived"
"My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method."
"I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive."
"Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid."
"If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has."
"I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina."
"I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor."
"Spouses should spend at least one full hour each day talking together about subjects that have nothing to do with their work or business. Children need at least ten minutes of face-to-face contact with their parents each day."
"Your parents are your projection-nothing more."
"Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew."
"Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding."
"No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world."
