I vividly remember sixth grade. It's the year when kids turn mean, and it's definitely no longer okay to cry in public. So we force our hot tears back, and they burn our throats all the way down.
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Related Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth gr... DEMETRI MARTIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our thro... RAFAEL CRUZ I vividly remember my sixth-grade classroom. I remember what it smelled like, where I sat, what I co... RODMAN PHILBRICK I'm not the type to cut back on hot showers, but there's no harm in hot water when it's ... JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've ... RIHANNA Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ... ANGELINA JOLIE And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, a... JOHN LENNON Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly b... 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As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a roo... ALEX VAN HALEN Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerf... ALISON JACKSON We've improved all the way through. Our fifth, sixth and seventh runners will be much higher in thei... LARRY STRADER I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. S... RIVERS CUOMO We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power... WARREN FARRELL When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. ... SARAH FERGUSON We are the rags to riches story, okay, the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings.... SI ROBERTSON As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to as... MICHELLE OBAMA As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way ... 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AARON NEVILLE Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because i... PHIL ROBERTSON So much of what we do addresses the issues that are associated with climate change, whether it's... LISA MURKOWSKI You just remember back when you were watching as a kid and going, 'Man, Sting's so cool,'... A.J. STYLES This healthy eating stuff, it's here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the op... MICHELLE OBAMA I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't ca... RIDLEY SCOTT When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely ... PETER HOOK Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which t... JOHN RALSTON SAUL The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that's grown together over the ye... DAVID HEYMAN It's okay', you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's o... KRISTEN STEWART In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in ter... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I know that's definitely the way for me to run races - instead of trying to burn up at the front... ELOISE WELLINGS What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in ... ALAN ALDA Growing up, my two favorite books were Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' and Phyllis Diller... JILL DAVIS We moved in 8th grade, so 7th grade I was doing okay, and then 8th grade, everything fell apart. I h... LAUREN GRAHAM We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up ... RONALD REAGAN It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a ye... 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You begi... LISA UNGER An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Cr... LISA RANDALL I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I jus... LISA O'HARE I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow... LISA KUDROW There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically... LISA UNGER Fact: I don't know of a single girl who doesn't wish the show-it-all boxer-shorts phenomenon would g... LISA SAMSON The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because i... LISA KRISTINE She said she collects pieces of sky, cuts holes out of it with silver scissors, bits of heaven she c... LISA ZARAN I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate ... LISA BONET People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously unders... LISA RANDALL I think the skin revolution for women, I will call it, really all started with Mariah Carey. Madonna... LISA BEDRICK There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and ... LISA LOEB My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being ov... LISA TUTTLE Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a write... LISA LUTZ I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of ... LISA LOEB Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspe... LISA RANDALL Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came fro... LISA MURKOWSKI I think it's fair to say that women have a different level of intuitiveness that allows them to ... LISA MURKOWSKI The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so th... LISA KLEYPAS Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoo... LISA KLEYPAS