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As I stood and gave the eulogy for young Michael Brown last week, I kept thinking about the fact that this child should have been in college instead of laying in a coffin.

~Al Sharpton

Topics: About Been Brown Child Coffin College Eulogy Fact Gave Instead Kept Last Laying Michael Michael Brown Should Stood Thinking Week Young

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When you loot or behave violently, you give grounds to those that try to justify illegal police abuse. You become the poster child for them to say, 'See, we have no choice but to shoot and kill, or use a chokehold, because just look at the way they behave.'

~Al Sharpton

Topics: Abuse Because Become Behave Child Choice Give Grounds Illegal Just Justify Look No Choice Police Poster Say See Shoot Them Those Try Use Violently Way You

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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.

~Al Yankovic

Topics: Been Book Books Career Child Children Did Her Lot Many Much Picture Pretty Reading Same Same Time Since Something Start Time Wanting Writing Years

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Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know how to say: 'I'm lonely, in pain, frightened' - distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child's world: the parent.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Attack Become Child Distress Explicit Frightened Good Hearing How Instead Know Listening Lonely Means Most Out Pain Parent Parents Reliable Safest Say Then Thing Unfairly Very Which Words World

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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Basically Child Father Grew Like Richard See Someone Up I See

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I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Child Kids Might Parents Read Reassure Very Which Who

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Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Adulthood Axis Both Child Different Each End First Long Love Loved May Mean Once Parent Party Want Were Why

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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Betrayed Child Feel Had Little Live Loved Me Mother Paranoid Psychotic Really She Somebody Tend Them Thinks Time Trying Who You

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You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.

~Alan Ball

Topics: Accountable Adult Cannot Child Hold Same Standards You

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I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Am Boring Child Childhood Fits Forms Found Glad Long None Nostalgia Now Over Person Take Then Want World I Am

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