Chen Guangbiao Quotes
My younger brother runs a guesthouse, and my sister is a janitor. I have not given them money because they earn their own money. I pay for their children's school fees.
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I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
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We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
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It's so funny: at 'SNL,' Bill Hader always kind of treated me like his little sister and would kind of, like, lovingly bully me.
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My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.
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Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.
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High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.
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I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.
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The NYPD, they're the finest in the world.
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Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world.
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I think the designs and creativity are limitless with 3-D-printed clothing.
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My younger brother runs a guesthouse, and my sister is a janitor. I have not given them money because they earn their own money. I pay for their children's school fees.
