Parents Quotes
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You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive.
Elmer Bernstein
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My parents were very relaxed about music.
Agnes Obel
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I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.
Emma Stone
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I saw how hard my parents worked, and I didn't want to be a freeloader.
Pete Gallego
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
Florence Griffith Joyner
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Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.
Ben Schnetzer
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I was seeing kids my age playing shows at their parents' houses or the couple of all-ages venues that existed. I feel like I saw so many different kinds of music that I wouldn't have discovered on my own.
Frankie Cosmos
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My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end of the year, where we had to wear the clothes that we made. I took it to a whole new level; I made all my friends clothes.
Kourtney Kardashian
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My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.
Bonnie Hammer
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My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.
Debra Messing
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I grew up a chubby girl. I had two brothers. My parents loved us, they just fed us whatever we wanted.
Meghan Trainor
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I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.
Darren Criss
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My mom and her parents had to leave because her brother had left a couple of years before and the government was really upset. They took away both my grandparents' jobs, so they couldn't make a living. They had to sell all their things. They weren't allowed to take more than $500 out of the country.
Sasha Cohen
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Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'
Natasha Henstridge
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Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.
Nancy Gibbs
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I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially.
Mary Kom
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My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.
Jack Kilmer
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
Patrick White
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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
Brigitte Bardot
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Parents and teachers alike are alarmed by this top-down approach to education that wrongly ties education money for states to the adoption of academic standards that do not fully reflect the values of South Carolina.
Jeff Duncan
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I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.
Agnes Obel
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I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
Nancy Pelosi
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If you count my childhood appearances in a few TV shows and being the son of two well-known actor parents in the U.K., plus three years of drama school, you could say that I've been pretty much surrounded by the business of acting and performing my entire life.
Linus Roache
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
Kate Micucci