Parents Quotes
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It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign.
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My parents just had faith in me, and thank God they did. They weren't stage parents in the slightest.
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My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.
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I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.
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On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
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The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.
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Both my parents are actors, in very different ways.
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I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
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I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.
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Like many children of the rich and famous, Paris Hilton didn't always get to spend quality time with her parents, especially her mother. A socially ambitious young woman, Kathleen Elizabeth Avanzino Richards Hilton, who had married into the celebrated Hilton Hotel family, was often out and about.
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When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.
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Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy.
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The challenge of writing books for teenagers is walking the fine line between truth and what the publishers, parents, and the more conservative librarians want to hear.
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At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.
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Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents.
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I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercises to stimulate subject matter: Write a poem about an imaginary landscape with real people in it. Write about a place your parents lived in before you were born. We have enough terrible poetry around without encouraging more of it.
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Take the government away. Let the parents take care of their kids.
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My parents didn't know how to provide me with the encouragement I needed to achieve my dreams.
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Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.
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My parents always instilled knowing that your beautiful, that your fearfully and wonderfully made, and that you know who you are.
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When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.
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I think a lot of us are a lot more cautious with marriage because of what we saw happening with our parents. I see a lot more healthy marriages in my generation than they probably saw in theirs.
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One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.
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I talk to my parents more than anybody in my family.
