Kids Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		Dogs are like kids. Cats are like roommates.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Oliver Gaspirtz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mattie Stepanek
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		One thing, parents: you need to realize is you've got to stop letting artists raise your kids. You're the parent. Why don't you monitor what your child wears? Ariana Grande didn't sign on to be a role model.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tionne Watkins
			
			
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		Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carroll O'Connor
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peter Cullen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way parents love their kids, the way you love a puppy or chocolate ice cream or home or your favorite book or your sister. Or your uncle. There's those kinds of love and then there's the other kind. The falling kind.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carol Rifka Brunt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Shatner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I like my airplane. It's as much a part of me as anything but my wife and kids.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Arnold Palmer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries at all. They only get scared of magic or werewolves from stupid adults and their stupid adult stories.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Neil deGrasse Tyson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jason Bateman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jill Lepore
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Linda McCartney
			
			
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		Your kids need your love and attention, and being able to devote myself to them is very fulfilling. As I get older, spending time with my daughters makes things much easier. You learn to put your ego aside.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bruce Willis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There's an old actor's saying about how you don't work with children or animals. I disagree with both of them. Some of the best times I've ever had were working with kids because there's an honesty to them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Liam Cunningham
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Liam Neeson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Sometimes I think about all the hours spent making lunches, carting kids from one place to another, being up in the middle of the night taking temperatures. People who haven't had to do that have, say, read every last book up there from cover to cover and probably remember it. There are trade-offs. But more life is more life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Claire Messud
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A whole street's belief in Sunday's roast beef gets dashed against the Co-op,To either cut down on beer or the kids' new gear, it's a big decision in a town called malice.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul Weller
			
			
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		I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Will Estes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Leon Spinks
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carol Vorderman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't want to misrepresent who I am personally. I don't want my kids to see me on a talk show and say, "You're talking different" or "You look different, dad." I'm not gonna be an animal; I know how to conduct myself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Michael Rapaport
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For me, what works well about 'Life in a Day' is that it's emotionally affecting without being manipulative. It really does make you think about the connectivity of the world, the similarities and differences. It shows the experiences we all go through: birth, childhood, falling in love, having kids, getting ill, dying.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kevin Macdonald