Raised Quotes
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No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.
Leon Trotsky
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When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
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If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.
Rene Magritte
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I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.
Mindy Kaling
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
William Ellery Channing
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I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.
Homer Hickam
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I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.
Mickey Mantle
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My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.
Sheila Heti
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Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.
Joyce Meyer
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I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want.
Charlize Theron
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This authority stood steady as the cathedral itself. The building was raised once and for all, and for those who dare doubt it, something else was raised: The witch fires.
Andre Bjerke
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I was raised around music.
Scott Porter
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Our voices need to be raised in unison against the deterioration of our culture.
Richard Platt
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The Need for an Empty Tomb ... If there was no empty tomb, Jesus was not physically raised.
Bart Ehrman
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I have been raised to value my family.
Monica Cruz
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Until White America can look through the eyes of a Black man, nothing will change. Even we as Black people sometimes don't want to face what's going on within our communities because some of us crossed over into a different tax bracket, but these issues affect the communities that raised us, so it affects us all.
Antonio Cromartie
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When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.
Sara Paxton
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I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.
Sandra Bullock
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After 14 years in boxing, the best decision I could have made was to take the last year off. My mind was not in boxing, but since I got here with Freddie, everything is working perfectly again. Boxing is all I know. Boxing is my life. Through boxing, I raised my family and I work to provide the best future for them. They are the reason I love boxing.
Miguel Cotto
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I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.
Willie Parker
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I thought the line 'I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska' was very funny. I think the word is 'sarcasm.' In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.
Andrea Fay Friedman
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That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.
Ezekiel Elliott
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I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.
Steve Earle
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Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place.
Haruki Murakami