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Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading.

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• But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

  

  Jack Dee
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• I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Reading
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• I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Kids
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• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  

  Carl Lewis
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• I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.

  

  K. A. Applegate
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• I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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• If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Believe
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• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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  • Value

• It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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  • Kids

• I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.

  

  Kate Christensen
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• I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

  

  Oscar Levant
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• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
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• When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.

  

  T. B. Joshua
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• When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for the word 'broccoli.' They see it for what it looks like, the image. We, as adults, forget to think like that. We forget to think figuratively and have to be reminded.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
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• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Kids
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  • Warfare

• What second love could she Olympias make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.

  

  Laura Riding
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• So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

  

  Bowie Kuhn
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• I've never been a heavy practitioner of the method or, at least, with any specific intent; I'm kind of an impulse-based person. Like, I'm sort of waiting for something to happen that I'm not expecting, and I kind of want to jump on that train of emotion, whatever it is, both from myself or from the other actor.

  

  Liev Schreiber
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• The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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• Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Kids
  • Reading
  • Twilight