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" I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life. "

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" Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids. "

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" A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever. "

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" Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep. "

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" Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that. "