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• People ask me. 'What about gay adoptions? Interracial? Single Parent?' I say. "Hey fine, as long as it works for the child and the family is responsible." My big stand is this: Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

  Dave Thomas

  Children, Home, Gay

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• I think that because of YouTube, because of MySpace, because of the digital domain that we have on the Internet, the younger generation is much more open to information. I think it's so much easier for them to gain information and trade information, and they have become more aware. In some cases, more aware than their own parents and adults, as to what's going on in the world. I find that really intriguing and interesting, and I think there is a brewing of a whole new generation of activists coming.

  Serj Tankian

  Thinking, Interesting, Digital

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on its parents (we call this “terrorism”), and inadvertently killing a child in an attempt to capture or kill an avowed child murderer (we call this “collateral damage”). In both cases a child has died, and in both cases it is a tragedy. But the ethical status of the perpetrators, be they individuals or states, could not be more distinct For Chomsky, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all.

  Sam Harris

  Children, Differences, Tragedy

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• Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

  Jim Morrison

  Freedom, People, Feelings

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• Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

  Mary Garden

  Spiritual, Children, Views

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• I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

  Philip Levine

  Feels, Like Me, European Countries

  Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

  Tim Johnson

  Children, Poor Quality, Support

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• I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

  Ryan White

  School, Kids, Height

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• A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Fear, Superstitions, Produce

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying”, p.185

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• The best way to be beautiful is to choose your parents well.

  Candice Bergen

  Love, Beautiful, Way

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• We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines.

  Robert A. Brady

  Children, Responsibility, Manipulation

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• Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Bird, Littles

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

  Barbara Bush

  Teacher, Children, Reading

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• Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.

  Mark Bowden

  Military, Favors, Today

  "Fictional character: Smith". "Black Hawk Down", www.imdb.com. December 18, 2001.

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• I feel most assuredly that our Father in heaven is far more interested in a soul-one of his children-than it is possible for an earthly father to be in one of his children. His love for us is greater than can be the love of an earthly parent for his offspring.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Children, Father, Heaven

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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.

  Michelle Williams

  Years, Independence, Desire

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• I was born rich. Not in tangible things... but rich in the parents I had.

  Ross Perot

  Children, Tangible, Rich

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• People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Thinking, People, Creative

  "HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Jeff Goldblum Talks Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s New Detective and More!". Interview, eclipsemagazine.com. April 29, 2009.

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• People worry more about girls, for a good reason: I don't think my parents thought I was going to be raped by a classmate or attacked when I was walking alone in some neighborhood. So it's not just paranoid parents.

  Daniel Handler

  Girl, Thinking, People

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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• I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my family, a typical aspirational Jewish family, being a writer was very much exalted, and it seemed impossible to me, that I could ever do something like that.

  Mark Leyner

  Book, Grandparent, Typical

  "Whit Stillman and Mark Leyner on Their First Projects in 15 Years". Interview with Matthew Perpetua, www.rollingstone.com. April 6, 2012.

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• I haven't been able to grasp the concept of putting your life on the line for whatever reason people go into the military for. Some people just want to pay their bills, some people believe in their country and some people do it because their parents did it, but that's rough.

  Anthony Mackie

  Country, Military, Believe

  Source: collider.com

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• The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to do that.

  Gayle King

  Dream, Kids, Responsibility

  "The Joy of Reading Can Take You So Many Places: A Chat With Gayle King". Interview with Earl Martin Phalen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2012.

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• I've always had a fascination with interior design. As a kid, I used to go to real estate open houses with my parents on the weekends. Like a nerd! I would think of how I would piece rooms together at those open houses.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Real, Kids, Weekend

  The Inside Source Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2011.

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• Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

  Russell Crowe

  Males, Female, Life Is

  "The Water Diviner - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Party, Responsibility, Grandmother

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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