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“When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say, "Oh, those folks got kids. They need some books." I'd knock on their door and sell them a set of encyclopedias, and those books were from $300 to $600. I'd look around the house, and if there wasn't that much furniture in the house, I felt a little bad about selling a $600 set of books to people who couldn't afford a couch. So I didn't last at that job very long.”

People Ifs Needs Looks Littles Long Book Kids Jobs Lasts House Felt Doors Sells Folks Selling Swings Furniture Couches Down The Road Encyclopedia Swing Sets

Author:Willie Nelson

“I'm very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.”

Ifs Kids School Remember Angry Impact Sensitive Classroom

Author:Aurora Aksnes

“I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got no choice because you're getting paid to do it, you grasp at straws. It's always easy now with my kids. I just create some "what-ifs" in my head, something horrible that would devastate me as a mother.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Kids Mother Choices Easy Stuff Memories Paid Horrible Straws Anything And Everything

Author:Vera Farmiga

“When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one of those guys that we used to watch, you know, I watched Clockwork Orange at an age that was incredibly inappropriate, but he sat there with me and he explained what was going on and you know, I came to appreciate it even if I was terrified at the time.”

Ifs Knows Kids Age Used Guy Fiction Watches Dad Appreciate Science Fiction My Dad Sat Terrified Orange Inappropriate Clockwork

Author:Duncan Jones

“From the time I was a kid, I had a wanderlust. I always wanted to travel, in any form - plane, train, boat, car, motorcycle. So I think that if I ever do have a mid-life crisis, I have all the toys to refer to quickly.”

Ifs Thinking Kids Wanted Form Car Crisis Train Boat Planes Toys Motorcycle Life Crisis Mid Life Crisis

Author:John Travolta

“I'm a jet jockey and I've always escaped ever since I was a kid. I've always been a weekend type runaway person. Work hard, play hard type thing. It's not been a mid-life thing at all, it's been a habit because I think it changes your environment and how you feel even if it's for the day. It's a good thing.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Persons Hard Play Kids Environment Hard Work Type Habit Good Things Weekend Our Environment Jet How You Feel Runaway Play Hard Jockeys Work Hard Play Hard

Author:John Travolta

“I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.”

Ifs Ends Might Kids Race Gone Couple Self Confidence Winner Stubborn Drains

Author:Truman Capote

“Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.”

Ifs Home Kids Together Remember Work Rooms Teacher Ready Setting Settings Beer Eggs Breakfast Invites Milk Family Life Living Room Orderly Housework Muffins Plowing

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“All over the world kids and women [are] getting killed right now over beliefs, this is silly to get angry over. If it bothers you just don’t attend I’m down for anything positive but this doesn’t affect our parties too much. I’m not the promoter, I actually had nothing to do with the rules being implemented, but I do agree with my team. And cause of who I am, I’m the de facto speaker. I have thick skin so u guys that consider yourself PLUR can attack me all you want it doesn’t bother me. I’m just here for the music.”

Ifs World Want Kids Guy Belief Causes Party Too Much Team Right Now Skins Agree Angry Silly Who I Am Bother Thick Speakers Promoters Thick Skin

Author:Diplo

“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".”

“I'm happy in Madrid, my kids are happy and my wife is happy, so everything's good. If anyone knows about contracts they take a while to sort out.”

Ifs Knows Kids Wife My Wife Contracts Madrid

Author:David Beckham

“If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in contradiction of your ratings system, then you should be held accountable just like any other company in America that misleads consumers. That's not censorship. That's common sense.”

Ifs Should Kids America Turns Common Company Products Common Sense Labels Consumers Contradiction Censorship Mislead Rating

Author:Joe Lieberman

“I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.”

Ifs Book Would Be Kids Reading Sitting My Family Corners Bars Funeral Procedures Unnoticed Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

Author:Neil Gaiman

“If you were a single mom, there's no way to support yourself and your kids by working in a hair salon. It's about a woman who decides to go and do what was considered a man's job, but was treated quite horribly for it and decides she has to fight for her rights when everyone thinks she should just shut up and take it.”

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Author:Charlize Theron

“If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.”

Ifs Enough Kids Spending Enough Time Yelling

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.”

Ifs World Should Self Kids Mother Boys Aspect Ideals Decided Baseball Idealism Circus Self Centered Backyards Grandpa Ideal World

Author:Norman Rockwell

“Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music.”

Ifs Years Littles Kids Spirit Wonder New York Students Cynicism Orchestra Scratches Fatigue Music Love Cynic Exuberance Old Music

Author:Zubin Mehta

“Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.”

Ifs Kids Parent Blame

Author:Chaz Bono

“If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.”

Ifs Giving I Can Use Kids Hours Advice Lifetime Sat Doing Nothing Couches

Author:Noel Gallagher

“I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.”

Ifs Kids Adults Rest Of Your Life

Author:Walt Disney

“Everyone has the right to go on a vacation without kids if they want.”

Ifs Want Kids Women Goes On Vacation

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.”

Ifs Has Beens Kids Age Women Boys Bones Controlled

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into a Guy Ritchie movie and the other five hundred will be Mr. Darcy. So we had to find cool, working class kids with no profile who could be John Travolta and James Dean and people like that.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, "What we're going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous." And you just see 20 smiles go up. "But, we're also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk." That's what it's about, you don't empower kids if you don't expose them to risk.”

Ifs Looks Kids Today Together Risk Dangerous Woods Manage Empowering Working Together

Author:Bear Grylls

“With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.”

Ifs Made Different Kids Age Guy Actors Chance Talent Made It Casting Take A Chance

Author:Elia Kazan

“The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.”

Ifs Long Kids Games Students Keys Adults Consequence Discussion Outcomes Accountability

Author:Albert Shanker

“The bells are a very good investment. They never break if they are maintained. I can teach the kids the basics. They may play bells for only one year, but many of them go on to play at local churches.”

Ifs Years May I Can Play Kids Church Teach Break Goes On Investment Very Good Locals Bells Basics Local Church

Author:Dan Gable

“The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.”

Ifs Kids Left Exercise Mouths Down And Tables Bites Household Plates Forks Leftovers Zippers

Author:Paul Stanley

“I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.”

Ifs Thinking Way I Can Kids Strong Interesting Cases Raises Good Parent Good Parenting

Author:Amy Chua

“I started out in a kid’s backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they can’t touch you, they can’t tackle you.”

Ifs Kids Principles Football Abandoned Backyards Touch Football

Author:Mercury Morris

“It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day.”

“I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Years Kind Book Seems Care Kids School Reading Hours High School Don't Care Teenager I Don't Care Insecurity Lunch Misfits Jocks School Years

Author:Charles de Lint

“I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.”

Ifs Way Want Years Persons Stills I Can Kids Jobs Fall Three Can Do Falling Down

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“If you looked in magazines ... you never see me in those out-on-the-town pages. I'm either at home playing with the kids or I'm working.”

Ifs Home Kids Pages Towns Magazines

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I could have hurt a hundred weaklings - weaker than me, and I was already very weak - I would. I was dying to hurt somebody, to pay it forward.”

Ifs Way Hands Kids Hurt Pay Dying Hundred Weak Cruelty If I Could Jackasses Pay It Forward

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.”

Ifs Children Problem Kids Social Activity Pregnancy Teenage Gang Starters Physical Activity Teenage Pregnancy

Author:Edwin Moses

“Our rule is: If it makes the parent laugh, and the kid asks why, that can't be an uncomfortable conversation.”

Ifs Kids Asks Parent Laughing Conversation Uncomfortable

Author:Dan Povenmire

“I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really.”

Ifs Want Kids Taught

Author:Paul Weller

“I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.”

Ifs Want Kids Brother Listening Vinyl

Author:Judd Apatow

“I was a big TV kid.When I was a kid, I would go home at 3:00 and watch TV straight through to the end of Letterman at 1:30 in the morning.I was obsessed with comics.And I would watch Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno and study them as if it was Tolstoy.”

Ifs Ends Home Bigs Kids Watches Morning Study Tvs Obsessed Jerry Letterman

Author:Judd Apatow

“Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.”

Ifs Firsts Kids Wanted School Dad Band Guitar Being Cool

Author:Julian Lennon

“We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.”

Ifs Should Kids Winning Fun Loses Worry Car Losing Tongue Coaches Ice Having Fun Cheeks Cream Bent Ice Cream Win Or Lose Tongue In Cheek Just Have Fun

Author:Bode Miller

“If I hadn't had Freddie Mercury's lyrics to hold on to as a kid I don't know where I would be. It taught me about all forms of music... it would open my mind. I never really had a bigger teacher in my whole life.”

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Author:Axl Rose

“The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else.... If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.”

People Ifs Needs Kids Order Powerful Numbers Acceptance Mets Our Family Belonging Elsewhere Approval Trust Me

Book:Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family

Source: Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family

“I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them, just having them scares the living bejesus out of me sometimes. I'm no saint, the way you kid about. But I've always walked the line, walked that goddamned line. It's a mean mother of a line, straight and narrow, sharp as a razor, cuts right into you when you walk it long enough. You're always bleeding on that line, and sometimes you wonder why you don't just step off and walk in the cool grass.”

Ifs Way Giving Mean Long Sometimes Enough Kids Mother Desire Evil Lines Walks Wonder Steps Cutting Saint Grass Scare Bleeding Razors

Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the production. It's like someone else taking care of your kids - if they don't treat them well, you're going to be pissed off. I'm actually co-producing [Backwoods] with my guitar player of 20 years, Kent Wells. We make a good combination... I think we're going to have a real good record.”

“Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.”

Ifs Knows World Needs Mean Important Kids Jobs Prove Important Things Quitting Prove It Quitting Your Job

Author:Jim Carrey

“When I was a kid people always asked why I didn't act like the rest of my family, and parents would say, "Well, she needs a childhood! We would never allow her to do that even if she wanted to". They were as involved in my life as any parents are in any person's life.”

People Ifs Needs Wells Persons Kids Wanted Parent Childhood Involved My Family

Author:Blake Lively

“You can't raise a happy, more resilient kid if you're not a happy, more resilient adult.”

Ifs Kids Adults Raises Resilient

Author:Tony Robbins

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