Alan Gratz Quotes, Kids Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I think kids are incredibly savvy readers. I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to know the truth.

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[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, 19 states have chosen to bump theirs even higher. Tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour.

3 years ago

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We all know people who have worse fates. What do I have to complain about for Christ's sake? I have a beautiful wife and kids, and all this music, kids are paying my bills.

4 years ago

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I was the funny, outgoing kid who didn't understand how he could keep getting mistaken for a nerd nobody liked.

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Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

3 years ago

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I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

4 years ago

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Tags : Abbie Cornish Quotes , Dad Quotes , Kids Quotes

As a kid growing up, I was so in sync as a fan that that served me well through the years. I can feel the game. And I try to match where the game is with my inflection, with my - the tonal quality, with getting excited.

4 years ago

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Tags : Al Michaels Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Kids Quotes

Having a kid made me realize, "I have to take care of this kid, but I can't have the luxury of dropping everything in the world and spending every waking moment with him. I've got to work."

4 years ago

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Tags : A.C. Newman Quotes , Kids Quotes , Luxury Quotes

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist...

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Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Book Quotes , Kids Quotes

The difference when you have kids comes up when someone wants to meet you out after 9:30 at night. You consider that giant sacrifice. You're like, "Do I do this? Do I stay out until 10:30 and be angry, all of tomorrow?

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Tags : Adam Sandler Quotes , Kids Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes

I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world. If I had any other skills that were more performative - if I could have been a musician or an actor - I'm sure I would have pursued that instead in order to get that instant feedback and to hear applause.

4 years ago

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When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I'm so happy I did a nice thing.

4 years ago

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Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

3 years ago

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Kids Quotes , Facts Quotes

All I can say is [kids] have turned out to be terrific young women. We were concerned mostly about whether they'd develop an attitude, right?

3 years ago

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My hope would be that, as we're moving through the world right now, we're able to get that psychological or emotional peace by seeing very concretely our kids doing better and being more hopeful and having greater opportunities.

3 years ago

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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

3 years ago

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Food Quotes , Kids Quotes

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

4 years ago

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Tags : Alan Rudolph Quotes , Fun Quotes , Kids Quotes

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

4 years ago

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I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

3 years ago

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Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Kids Quotes , Liquor Stores Quotes

In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!

4 years ago

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