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Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
CHASTITY BONO If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.
MARCELENE COX If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. J...
CYNTHIA NIXON There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you...
VANESSA WILLIAMS Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you ...
LARRY THE CABLE GUY Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
SAM LEVENSON When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.
REBEL WILSON It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don&...
JAIME PRESSLY I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you...
ANDREW VACHSS People don't understand that I have a great relationship with my parents - like, how that can ex...
KATY PERRY If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems...
BRUCE SCHNEIER I don't understand the NBA in that, each time they bring in a one-and-done kid, they have to rel...
BOBBY KNIGHT I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG Always remember your kid's name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don't let your kid ...
AMY POEHLER If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don&...
JOHN KRICFALUSI Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny ...
WAVY GRAVY I couldn't have accomplished the things in my career if I didn't practice, and the worst par...
ALLEN IVERSON I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would...
EMINEM If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just...
THOMAS J. WATSON I don't know if I really watched any Disney animation as a kid.
EMILIE DE RAVIN If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
STEVEN WRIGHT I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understan...
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JULIUS GENACHOWSKI There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid...
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CAROLYN CHUTE If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, an...
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AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don&...
TRAVIS FIMMEL Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours.
TONY FERNANDES The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don't believe what you're say...
RIZ AHMED People have disliked me. You know, in high school, I wasn't the most popular kid. I wasn't t...
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JASON BATEMAN If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what'...
WILLIE HERENTON You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own...
BRIAN GRAZER I understand that there are a few roles out there and tons of actors. Just because you don't get...
GRACE GEALEY Don't blame the situation, don't blame other people
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MAURICE SENDAK What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your be...
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CARINE ROITFELD To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at i...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to ...
EVANDER HOLYFIELD If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions...
MARK ZUCKERBERG I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my...
EMMA WATSON If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
CLARENCE DAY When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don...
DICK VAN DYKE When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too ...
DANIEL LIBESKIND I love kids. But that's such a big commitment. And it seems long-term. It seems like a commitmen...
ELLEN DEGENERES I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren&...
DACRE MONTGOMERY If twang isn't what I do, I don't know what is.
GEORGE STRAIT When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, y...
DAVID HASSELHOFF I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competit...
OSCAR ROBERTSON Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you do...
GEOFFREY HOLDER I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have ...
NICK CAVE People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - ...
PRINCE You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't ...
IMELDA STAUNTON For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity ...
TIM MATHESON If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
ROBERT ALTMAN I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow...
ROD MCKUEN I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experi...
CAMERON DIAZ I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to th...
DOROTHY HAMILL I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggera...
OZWALD BOATENG If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your o...
CLIFFORD STOLL The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.
TIGER WOODS If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.
MITCH HEDBERG If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your a...
ROBERT GOTTLIEB When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand'...
HELEN ROWLAND You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don...
MACY GRAY Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, b...
VALERIE BERTINELLI Just because you don't announce your plan doesn't mean you don't have one.
HERB KELLEHER If you don't have dreams, you don't have a life.
BRYCE HARPER If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are ...
QUVENZHANE WALLIS We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as...
LINDA LAVIN Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS There is a huge business case for diversity. You will be making products for people you don't un...
RENEE JAMES The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know,...
PAUL KRUGMAN If you don't get trained for your SATs in America today, you are at a disadvantage. Training is ...
MILLARD DREXLER Boldness isn't something you're born with; you either choose it or you don't.
MIKE YACONELLI If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the ...
NATE DIAZ If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing wh...
RIDLEY SCOTT If you don't have eyebrows, you don't really have a face.
SAOIRSE RONAN You don't have a balanced life if you don't have art.
AGNES GUND It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have som...
DAVE HICKEY I hear actors complain about being stereotyped, and a lot of the time, you have yourself to blame. J...
JOHN C. REILLY I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't h...
SAMANTHA MORTON You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie ...
GORDON BETHUNE If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're goi...
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DEE HOCK If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there...
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EDWARD DE BONO Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
EDWARD DE BONO It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually ...
EDWARD DE BONO To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapi...
EDWARD DE BONO In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing ...
EDWARD DE BONO I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up wit...
EDWARD DE BONO I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acqu...
EDWARD DE BONO There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that m...
EDWARD DE BONO An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...
EDWARD DE BONO The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
EDWARD DE BONO