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Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'
Author:
Devon Werkheiser
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I would say that my parents were supportive of me.
Author:
Sanford Weill
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My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.
Author:
Sanford Weill
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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
Author:
Kurt Vonnegut
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I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.
Author:
Linda Vester
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We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.
Author:
Hunter Tylo
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My parents separated when I was younger.
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Tina Turner
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I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me.
Author:
Justin Timberlake
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My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.
Author:
Toots Thielemans
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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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Ben Stiller
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I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
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Margaret Spellings
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And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.
Author:
Lisa Snowdon
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I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.
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Margaret Smith
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My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.
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Sargent Shriver
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Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.
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Josh Schwartz
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So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
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Virginia Satir
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My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!
Author:
Mathias Rust
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Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
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Paul Prudhomme
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I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
Author:
Victoria Principal
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My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
Author:
Martin Perl
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I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.
Author:
Martin Perl
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The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.
Author:
Martin Perl
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
Author:
Rafael Palmeiro
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
Author:
Dan O'Brien
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I lost my parents when I was fairly young.
Author:
Craig Nelson
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My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
Author:
Constance Motley
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Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
Author:
James Meade
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My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.
Author:
Bobby McFerrin
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The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.
Author:
Joyce Maynard
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I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.
Author:
Melissa Maur
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My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.
Author:
Queen Mary
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
Author:
Dan Marino
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
Author:
Patrick Marber
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Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.
Author:
Camryn Manheim
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My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.
Author:
Camryn Manheim
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I don't think my parents know what I do.
Author:
John Malkovich
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Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
Author:
Lorna Luft
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I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents.
Author:
Tina Louise
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Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind.
Author:
Mario Lopez
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Author:
John Locke
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Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
Author:
Maya Lin
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Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.
Author:
Wendy Liebman
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
Author:
Vivien Leigh
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My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.
Author:
Alan Ladd
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
Author:
Charles Kuralt
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
Author:
Nancy Kerrigan
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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.
Author:
January Jones
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My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
Author:
Joan Jett
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As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.
Author:
Elfriede Jelinek
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I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.
Author:
LaToya Jackson
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My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
Author:
Guillermo Infante
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We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.
Author:
Jeffrey Hunter
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I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.
Author:
Martina Hingis
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A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
Author:
Lewis Hershey
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My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
Author:
Kristin Hersh
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When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.
Author:
Marilu Henner
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My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.
Author:
Neil Harris
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It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.
Author:
Dorothy Hamill
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I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
Author:
Bill Griffith
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A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Author:
Billy Graham
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
Author:
Haim Ginott
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There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.
Author:
Charlotte Gainsbourg
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I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.
Author:
Jodie Foster
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I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.
Author:
Faith Ford
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Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.
Author:
Bobby Flay
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
Author:
Sam Ewing
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It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.
Author:
Christopher Eccleston
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For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.
Author:
Shelley Duvall
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My parents didn't really know one another.
Author:
Christopher Durang
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When my parents separated, I was very grateful.
Author:
Christopher Durang
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A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.
Author:
Raymond Duncan
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My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.
Author:
Lexa Doig
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My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.
Author:
Andy Dick
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When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Author:
Rodney Dangerfield
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When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.
Author:
Russell Crowe
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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
Author:
Doug Coupland
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My own parents loved each other very much.
Author:
Jilly Cooper
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I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.
Author:
Caroline Cooney
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I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.
Author:
Caroline Cooney
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My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
Author:
Nadia Comaneci
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
Author:
Camille Claudel
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If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.
Author:
Dick Clark
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I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.
Author:
Prince Charles
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Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
Author:
Jackie Chan
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My parents really encouraged me.
Author:
Randy Castillo
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Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.
Author:
Deana Carter
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I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.
Author:
Deborah Bull
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My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.
Author:
Kobe Bryant
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I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.
Author:
Zach Braff
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If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.
Author:
Danny Bonaduce
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My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.
Author:
Franz Boas
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I think my parents where high when they named me.
Author:
Jolene Blalock
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My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.
Author:
Annette Bening
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My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.
Author:
David Beckham
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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
Author:
Boris Becker
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Author:
Woody Allen
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I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.
Author:
Tatyana Ali
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
Author:
Lloyd Alexander
