Raised Quotes
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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The only way we are going to stop this disease is to raise money. Jimmy would go absolutely bananas to know how much money has been raised. We can't just sit back. This disease affects all of us.
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She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason she named me Billie. It's not about being a strong woman - it's about being a strong person.
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I was raised with three bothers, no sisters. I've always been a tomboy.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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Barack Obama has raised tons of money. That is what he means by being green.
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I was thinking a lot about music, about how music is mixed and how everything is happening at the same time; it just amounts to how the sound is lowered or raised. I was trying to get that with writing.
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I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.
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My wife was diagnosed with lupus 16 or 17 years ago, and that's how I kinda got involved in it. I just finished my fifth annual Bobby Hatfield Classic Golf Tournament, and happily I can report that we raised over $52,000. Through the years we've raised not only through the golf tournament, but through other charitable concerts, we've raised over $600,000.
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Deacon Jones grew up a street over from my grandfather, where I was raised.
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Raised during Reagan, suffered through Clinton
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
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She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
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I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church?
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I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I was raised in it, from way back. I'm not putting jazz down, but I'm not a jazz singer...I've recorded all kinds of music, but (to them) I'm either a jazz singer or a blues singer. I can't sing a blues – just a right-out blues – but I can put the blues in whatever I sing. I might sing 'Send In the Clowns' and I might stick a little bluesy part in it, or any song. What I want to do, music-wise, is all kinds of music that I like, and I like all kinds of music.
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Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do.
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It took like 5 hours to complete my virgin Mary. I was raised Catholic and it seemed like a good idea.
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Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.
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SF raised me, and I think it did a damn fine job. It at least removed a lot of potential sources of anxiety.
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I basically raised myself.
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I was raised in Hollywood by my mother.
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As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, what are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions.
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Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.
