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		We take a lot of pictures with fans, and when they walk away, their parents say, 'Who was that?'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Freddie Wong
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Kids have parents. Let the parents be responsible for the kids.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bruce Bickford
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was raised in a strict fundamentalist household, and I always say that gives you a muscle of belief. I want to believe in something, but I don't believe in what my parents believed in. Poetry has taken the place, or I think the arts have taken the place, of religion in my life. I wanted to see how that was working out through the poems.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barbara Hamby
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joseph Barbera
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Caroline Knapp
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lawrence Welk
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dustin Hoffman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dalai Lama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cardi B
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vandana Shiva
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hillary Clinton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Cusack
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Krasinski
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There are two phone calls parents don't ever want to get from their children. No. 1 is, 'I'm in prison. Come fetch me.' And No. 2 is, 'I've written a novel... and it's set in your hometown.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Adriana Trigiani
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was 3 years old, my parents got a dog. I was jealous of the dog, so they got rid of me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jack Roy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		And the parents, of course, are aware of this. The fathers come here anxious to look intelligent, amiable and prosperous; the mothers put on their best frocks and hope that their sons’ friends will think them young-looking, attractive, well turned out .
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edmund Crispin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				ASAP Rocky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I would expect illegal alien parents to take care of their children. If it means the kids go back home with them, that's what happens. If it means there are legal relatives in the United States that can take care of them, that can happen to. But I believe it's the parents responsibility to take care of the kids.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mo Brooks