Parents Quotes
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I know I can't eat whatever I want and look the way I want, so you need to work for it. I give credit to Pilates and my parents' good genes.
Genesis Rodriguez
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Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
B. D. Wong
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My family is from the south of Italy in this little place called Calabria. It's a big part of my family, the Italian culture. I grew up around it. My parents speak Italian, and I speak Italian.
Alessia Cara
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I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds.
Aly Raisman
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My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma's house. That's where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, 'Hey, I'm onto something here.'
Bill Rancic
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I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.
Crystal Bowersox
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I've gone from a kid who was sneaking out of my childhood house and lying to my parents to do shows in a community theatre in Reading, PA, to now having two shows on Broadway opening within two months of each other. That's sort of crazy, that trajectory.
Douglas Carter Beane
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Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.
Clayton Christensen
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My parents are the hardest-working people I ever knew: they always worked every day, all day; they had to come up with the solutions to make things work. And I think that work ethic, maybe stubbornness, single-mindedness, definitely played a role for me. I'm definitely thankful for my roots.
Peggy Whitson
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It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'
Idris Elba
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Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.
Dan Webster
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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
Tavi Gevinson
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
Indira Gandhi
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Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
Karen DeCrow
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Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through 'Die Hard' in the theater as an infant.
Haley Joel Osment
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Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
Tamara Ecclestone
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My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.
Kangana Ranaut
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You don't bad-mouth your ex or anything like that. The key is your kid knowing that both parents still love him and are there for him.
Dennis Quaid
