Barack Obama Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Kids Quotes

You may want to prove that you're worthy of other kids or neighbors who were wealthier than you and teased you. You may want to prove that you're worthy of high expectations. But I do think that there is a youthful ambition that very much has to do with making your mark in the world. And I think that cuts across the experiences of a lot of people who end up achieving something significant in their field.

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I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.

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Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

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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.

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I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.

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When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

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I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'

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I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.

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When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

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We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.

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I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

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That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

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I don't want my kid to hear any of the albums that I've made.

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I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.

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Ever since I started acting, I've always spoken to our people about identity. I've spoken to kids, telling them: "Where do I get my strength to push through the barriers to get me where I'm at today? It's my culture and my traditions, you know?

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The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

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The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.

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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.

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