Parents Quotes
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I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.
Marlee Matlin
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My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.
David Guetta
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We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.
Peter Chernin
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I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.
Kit Harington
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My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and... placing bets...
Emo Philips
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There are a lot of voices inside of us. We have the voices of our parents, our grandparents, our society, our bosses, our own should's and shouldn'ts, and our self-worth is in us, controlling us a lot. When we can get past all of those, and get to the deep, core part of us, there's a voice within our soul that I believe is connected to our Divine or Higher Self. That voice within is there to guide us through all aspects of our lives.
Echo Bodine
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I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.
John Ratzenberger
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I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.
Britt Ekland
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Coming from an immigrant background, where a lot of parents don't want their kids to be comedians, success was just showing my mom that I could make a living. I was like, if I can get my mom off my back, that was my success.
Maz Jobrani
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We are intensely loyal to our parents. In spite of the pain we experienced at our parent's hands, we cling tenaciously to their views of life; and their examples of what it is to be a man or a woman follow us throughout life. Acknowledging the power of our loyalty to them, and especially our loyalty to our same-sex parent, is only the beginning of our journey to improve upon their model; but it is at least a first step.
Augustus Napier
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I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention.
Dee Rees
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The same intact culture that made them good businessmen also made many of them lousy parents.
Kage Baker
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My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
Kelly Ripa
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I do remember feeling, 'I don't ever want to feel impotent in terms of what I can control in a business in which you can have very little control.' And that motivated me to go to law school - that, and my parents saying, 'Go to law school before you do anything.'
Marc Platt
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The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!
Anthony Minghella
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I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics
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I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
James Dean
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I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.
Rita Ora
