"Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back."
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"My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The only thing they told me was that I had to wait until I was 18 so I could get my education out of the way first."
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"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
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"I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame."
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"I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street."
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"I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about."
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"I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person."
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"They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it."
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"I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941."
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"An amazing piece of advice for a lot of kids, 50-year-olds, whoever is listening right now: Saving money is a good strategy. I didn't have stuff, but it was because my parents were saving. They were saving. We didn't get toys. They told us to go outside and paint a rock. It was very, very smart because after seven or eight years, he was able to buy a liquor store of his own in Springfield, New Jersey - Shoppers Discount Liquors. He built up a great business."
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"To me, the main difference between young people now and the people I was young with isn't so much style, it's the relationships they have with their parents. Their parents like them much more than ours liked us. Our parents weren't our friends. But now I see my friends on the phones with their, what, 30 - year - old kids? And they're talking about feelings."
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"I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area."
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"Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor."
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"I do not go to the gym. I do not train. I am not that careful about what I eat. I cannot give you any advice about keeping fit. The best advice I can give is choose your parents wisely."
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"Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go."
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"The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred."
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"More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act."
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"Regarding local residents attempting to ban sex shops from their neighborhoods: You show me a parent who says he's worried about his child's innocence and I'll show you a homeowner trying to maintain equity."
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"It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child."
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"A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with."
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