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		When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rick Nielsen
			
			
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		I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Douglas Tompkins
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I liked Pat Cash, and I loved Mats Wilander. I went to the Australian Open with my parents, and I used to watch Wilander being cheered on by the Swedish fans, and with his game style being like mine, I drew comparisons with him.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lleyton Hewitt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Our parents treated all three of us - two sisters and a brother - equally. When it came to education, or our future plans, there was no discrimination between us based on our gender.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chanda Kochhar
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Parents are with their children almost constantly and can observe when they are ready to be instructed. From questions or behavior or because of experiences in their own lives, they can sense that it is time to teach. Parents must know when the time for the lesson is now, right now, for their children are ready for it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Boyd K. Packer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Like other parents, I want my children to be comfortable in their adult lives.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles C. Mann
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marianne Faithfull
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is not a church’s job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Barna
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday... that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe Jonas
			
			
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		I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Neil deGrasse Tyson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John McEnroe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Lennon
			
			
				The Beatles