We started this mostly from an intellectual place.

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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

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I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.

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We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.

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But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

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I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

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