"Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare."
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"The government doesn't save enough, it borrows too much and it doesn't invest enough in the next generation. It's like what parents are trying to get their kids not to do, but if they look at the federal government, that's what they're doing."
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"You're born in a certain time, your budvi, or the way to mind, or the psyche of it all, understands the time in which you were born, and so already information is adapted by the mind of a person born in a certain time, that's why we're so different from our parents, and our parents from theirs."
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"I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs."
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"I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything."
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"I'm soooooo telling." Puck stood behind her. "You two disobeyed your parents! I'm both shocked and really impressed."
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"Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents."
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"I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up."
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"A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection."
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"Start, as parents, with yourselves, number one."
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"I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence."
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"Everything that is true is authentic. When we were born, we did not have knowledge. As soon as we have language, we learn to describe everything through that language and we learn to be like our family, our parents, those at school, etc."
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"I felt both parents at my side no matter what I did."
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"I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents."
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"We had everything. We were young kids. We were driving cars our parents couldn't afford, living in big houses. For me to sit here and say, "Oh my God, I didn't enjoy any of it" - no, I did. Of course I did."
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"As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child."
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"I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them."
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"I don't think leave the Harry Potter franchise. Not wanting to act, yes. I think it was that stage of rebellion, really. Everyone goes through it. I thought, "I've been an actor. My parents are proud of me being an actor. I want to do something else." I wanted to join the Army, actually, or be in the Air Force, or something like that. I still wouldn't mind doing that. Obviously, it's a bit late for me now."
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"My parents are proud of me being an actor."
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"I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them. They've got all their home videos done in HD quality! They love it. But I struggle very much. I'm very self-conscious as an actor, anyway. I don't like watching my own performances, even in this recent one."
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