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• My parents were really nice to me.

  Bryan Callen

  Nice, Really Nice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked - just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated humor.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Mom, Weed, Sex

  "Shia LeBeouf Admits to Watching His Parents Have Sex". www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2009.

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• Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

  John Waters

  Fashion, Keys, Peers

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.99, Macmillan

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• We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in their existence that we would wish, but I don't think censorship is ever the solution to any problem, be it societal or be it the kind of information or ideas that you have access to.

  Judith Krug

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  "Easy Access?" by Spencer Michels, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, August 7, 1997.

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• It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail.

  Abby Sunderland

  Kids, People, Decision

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.92, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

  Callum Keith Rennie

  Moving, Canada, Proud

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• As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.

  Rani Mukerji

  Children, Giving, Remember

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• My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder.

  Ali MacGraw

  Adventure, Artist, Might

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• Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.

  Natalie Kusz

  Family, Soul, Stories

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• I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.

  Camila Alves

  Girl, Want, Married

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.

  Joni Mitchell

  Giving Up, Fighting, Warrior

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• Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.

  Tyne Daly

  Thinking, Important, Acting

  "Love and All That Comes With It". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. May 23, 2014.

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• Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.

  Lauren Miller

  Sorry, Dark, Journey

  "Seth Rogen and Wife, Lauren Miller, Take on Alzheimer's". Interview with Ashley Ross, www.shape.com.

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• I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'

  Eric Close

  Taken, College, Men

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• My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

  Brian Blessed

  Honesty, Kindness, Adventure

  "My family values: Brian Blessed". Interview with Chris Hall, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man.

  Edward Gibbon

  Revenge, Ambition, Men

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.488

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• I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Children, Humor

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.325

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• My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness.

  Harry Lloyd

  Italian, Polish, Knows

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• My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

  Arabella Weir

  Simple, Generations, Fats

  "Arabella Weir: I weighed my parents' love on the bathroom scales". www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity.

  Brian J. White

  Mother, Stars, Father

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• When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else.

  Joan M. Drury

  Gone, Lasts, Chance

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• You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children whose parents don't speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Humor, Kids

  "President Bush Addresses Taxes, Social Security in Independence, Missouri". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. August 21, 2001.

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• Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his amorous passions was never diverted from their lawful objects. The proud titles of Imperial greatness were adorned by the tender names of a faithful husband, an indulgent father; his uncle was raised, by his affectionate esteem, to the rank of a second parent.

  Edward Gibbon

  Uncles, Husband, Father

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus”, p.26, 谷月社

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• Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Growing Up, Moving, Loss

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 29, 2011

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• It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

  Aristotle

  Education, Son, Noble

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

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