Kid Quotes
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I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.
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I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.
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You give to get. Whether it's helping someone or training a kid, I believe you will be rewarded in some way.
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This sounds corny, but I once told a kid when I was in a the library conference, the best - not the best, what I really hope for is that someday 20, 30 years from now, some kid, 12-year-old, 15-year-old, in Des Moines will be going through the stacks, if they have stacks anymore - they probably won't - and find a book of mine and get something from it.
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I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.
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When you're a kid, right, and you're surrounded by all these other kids, and let's say they don't have the same interests or the same goals or the same world view as you... It's difficult because a child doesn't know that there's another way. A child doesn't know that there's another place outside of the systems and hierarchies in school.
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I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.
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The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.
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It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.
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The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'
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As a kid, I remember crying and then noticing myself in the mirror and being fascinated by how that looked.
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When I arrived, at first a lot of people were like, 'This kid is different.'
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As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
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The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.
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Ever since I was a little kid, when I was racing motocross and stuff, it's been a dream to ride for Red Bull someday.
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There was an edge of, 'Go away kid, you're bothering me'. I've kicked myself a million times since. I could've discovered Whitney Houston.
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When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.
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I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.
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If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.
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I try to sign every kid’s autograph. I don’t want to turn a little kid down because I know it will hurt them because it hurt me. Anthony Davis, John Wall turned me down. So I try to sign everybody.
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I went home one night and told my dad that an older kid was picking on me. My Dad, a Korean War vet and a Chicago cop for 30 years, told me, 'You better pick up a brick and hit him in the head.' That's when I thought, 'Wow, I'm going to have to start dealing with things in a different way.'
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Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.
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I'm a radio nerd. I've loved radio since I was a kid. I'm a huge Howard Stern fan.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
