Parents Quotes
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I tried to be like the richer kids as much as I could because I wanted to live on their streets, at least hang out on their streets and eat their amazing food and walk barefoot on their shag carpets. I became something of a pest in that way, and in general, other people's parents didn't like me.
Lynda Barry -
My parents are actors and never brought work home. I didn't even know what they did until I was about 10 years old. We never talked about it.
Wyatt Russell
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Parents can't monitor what you are doing on Snapchat.
Ansel Elgort -
I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?
John Cho -
It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.
Willa Fitzgerald -
I had a stage when I was 12 years old. I had a puppet show career. I wrote horror stories in camp, and all the parents called and complained.
John Waters -
I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.
Bill Gates -
I went through a little hippy dippy program at Brandeis and was bat mizvahed by the rabbi who married my parents. We celebrated the High Holidays and had the traditional Rosh Hashanah dinner.
Ari Graynor
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Give parents and school superintendents and school boards the power to decide if they need that money for school construction or if they need it for teacher training or if they need it for new computers.
Dennis Hastert -
The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.
Jennifer Garner -
I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.
Derek Jeter -
The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves, and most people are mad at their parents. You don't have to be in denial to doubt that truths like these will set us free.
Wendy Kaminer -
I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.
Adrien Brody
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On the one hand, I'm so relieved that I've actually managed to finish my very first series and that I've been able to see my characters through to the end of their journeys. On the other hand, I feel like how parents must feel when they send their kid off to college. It's a bittersweet mix.
Marie Lu -
When I was a kid, I'd always wanted to take karate, but my parents wouldn't let me because I did a lot of other things, including ballet.
Adena Friedman -
I fully support the efforts of Mr. & Mrs. Schindler to save their daughter, Terri Schiavo, from a cruel starvation. Terri's husband should sign the care of his wife over to her parents so she can be properly cared for.
Mel Gibson -
There was something I wanted, something I envisioned, loving parents, a happy home with everyone smiling at me. A home that no one would ever want to leave, a warm place , a warm person. It exists, I know it does...
Natsuki Takaya -
I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.
Cardi B -
I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.
Julia Roberts
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I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.
Denis Leary -
Bathrooms have always been a big issue in my life. My parents fought for me to be able to enroll in elementary school as a girl, which I did. But I still would not be allowed to use the girls' room under any condition.
Jazz Jennings -
My parents were always entrepreneurial.
James William Middleton -
I was really lucky about two things about my life as a kid: I had awesome parents, and I had awesome peers.
Joe Lonsdale