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My grandfather had been a shipwright, and as a child, as there were few other jobs in the town, I would wonder with some anxiety whether that would be my destiny too.
A friend of mine, an Indian friend of mine, went to his grandfather when he was very young, a child, and said to him, "I want to talk to you about religion," and his grandfather said, "You're too young.
I devoured science fiction as a child.
It could address a child or an adult.
You might have seen a child running on carbon fiber prosthetic legs.
You know, we live in a world that's subjected to ever more stringent child safety regulations.
There doesn't seem to be any limit on how crazy child safety regulations can get.
Learning to control one of the most elemental forces in nature is a pivotal moment in any child's personal history.
Or it might be a choice about whether to have children, to have an ailing parent move in with you, to raise your child in a religion that your partner lives by but leaves you cold.
Because of that feeling, I was able to contrast the stereotypes I'd been taught as a child with real life experience and interaction.
Even as a child I would just look at a painting of Kyoto and feel I recognized it; I knew it before I ever laid eyes on it.
It is not well known that the tobacco industry significantly relies on child labor.
In March 2017, the International Labour Organization issued a report which stated: "In tobacco-growing communities, child labor is rampant."
Earlier in my incarceration, I had received a letter from one of the relatives of my victim, and in that letter, she told me she forgave me, because she realized I was a young child who had been abused and had been through some hardships and just made a series of poor decisions.
I knew that if in one hour, our child didn't come, I was going to leave her there and go back to work and make a presentation about AI to my boss, Apple's CEO.
And this idea is nicely summarized by the British critic William Hazlitt, who wrote, "Prejudice is the child of ignorance."
I was a child, too young to understand the circumstances of my being there.
And Somaly Mam, a Cambodian activist who fights passionately against child prostitution.
So that led to my own work with Seymour in places like Cambodia and the starting of One Laptop per Child.
Enough TED Talks on One Laptop per Child, so I'll go through it very fast, but it did give us the chance to do something at a relatively large scale in the area of learning, development and computing.
Very few people know that One Laptop per Child was a $1 billion project, and it was, at least over the seven years I ran it, but even more important, the World Bank contributed zero, USAID zero.
And in a short period of time, they not only turned them on and were using 50 apps per child within five days, they were singing "ABC" songs within two weeks, but they hacked Android within six months.
They may be primitive, but the way to approach it and to connect them, the history of One Laptop per Child, and the experiment in Ethiopia, lead me to believe that we can in fact do this in a very short period of time.
When I was pregnant with my first child, I was always hungry.
Donald and I were pregnant with our third child and we were at about 41 and a half weeks, what some of you may refer to as being overdue.
And I'm not advocating that you not listen to your doctors, because even with our first child, we were induced at 38 weeks; cervical fluid was low.
And in fact, we had a second temperature shift, confirmed with a pregnancy test that were indeed pregnant with our first child, very exciting.
They're feeding our children every single day, and before a child can learn, their belly needs to be full, and these women and men are working on the front lines to create an educated society.
Many of us think that we can't know what another animal is thinking, and that is true, but any of you in relationships — at least this is my case — just because you ask someone that you're with or your parent or your child how they feel doesn't mean that they can tell you.
I think of heaven as a really comfortable cloud where I can just lie down with my belly down, like I was watching TV when I was a child, and my elbows up.
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