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• Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

  John Piper

  Grace, Bitterness, Sin

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• Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.

  John Bingham

  United States, Citizens, Owing

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• The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

  Paul Johnson

  Family, Institutions, Subversive

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• A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Fear, Superstitions, Produce

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying”, p.185

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• The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

  Steve Forbes

  Running, Attitude, Taken

  Steve Forbes (1999). “A New Birth of Freedom: Vision for America”, Regnery Publishing

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• The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.

  Paul Goodman

  Movie, Children, Growing Up

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.76, New York Review of Books

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• I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my family, a typical aspirational Jewish family, being a writer was very much exalted, and it seemed impossible to me, that I could ever do something like that.

  Mark Leyner

  Book, Grandparent, Typical

  "Whit Stillman and Mark Leyner on Their First Projects in 15 Years". Interview with Matthew Perpetua, www.rollingstone.com. April 6, 2012.

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• I haven't been able to grasp the concept of putting your life on the line for whatever reason people go into the military for. Some people just want to pay their bills, some people believe in their country and some people do it because their parents did it, but that's rough.

  Anthony Mackie

  Country, Military, Believe

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

  Marion Cotillard

  Kids, Creative, Actors

  "Marion Cotillard Interview PUBLIC ENEMIES". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2009.

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• The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to do that.

  Gayle King

  Dream, Kids, Responsibility

  "The Joy of Reading Can Take You So Many Places: A Chat With Gayle King". Interview with Earl Martin Phalen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2012.

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• I've always had a fascination with interior design. As a kid, I used to go to real estate open houses with my parents on the weekends. Like a nerd! I would think of how I would piece rooms together at those open houses.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Real, Kids, Weekend

  The Inside Source Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2011.

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• I think that because of YouTube, because of MySpace, because of the digital domain that we have on the Internet, the younger generation is much more open to information. I think it's so much easier for them to gain information and trade information, and they have become more aware. In some cases, more aware than their own parents and adults, as to what's going on in the world. I find that really intriguing and interesting, and I think there is a brewing of a whole new generation of activists coming.

  Serj Tankian

  Thinking, Interesting, Digital

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't know that any woman could ever not think about that at some point - even making the choice not to do it and getting to the place of peace of choosing not to be a parent, there would have still been some struggle in between. I'm not a man but I don't think it would occupy their minds as much.

  Naomi Watts

  Struggle, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

  Russell Crowe

  Males, Female, Life Is

  "The Water Diviner - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The community in Utah was very religious. I was a typical teenage girl trying to find my sexuality. Unfortunately, girls do use their sexuality to find attention. I also understand why parents want to protect their kids.

  Julianne Hough

  Girl, Religious, Teenage

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• I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

  Art Spiegelman

  Artist, Degenerates, Camps

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She sounds fine." They didn't know. To them, I spoke perfect English because their accents were so heavy. I don't even want to know what I sounded like. I don't want to know!

  Odeya Rush

  Perfect, Challenges, Sound

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

  Stephen Hawking

  Apes, Ancestor, Higher

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 8, 2015.

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• People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Thinking, People, Creative

  "HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Jeff Goldblum Talks Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s New Detective and More!". Interview, eclipsemagazine.com. April 29, 2009.

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• As a parent, all you want is for your kids to be safe but you don’t want to be over-protective and so you know that at some stage, they’re going to make their own mistakes and get hurt emotionally when all you want to do is protect them from that.

  Steve Carell

  Hurt, Mistake, Kids

  "Dan In Real Life - Steve Carell interview". Interview withJack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.

  Kristen Stewart

  Growing Up, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My attitude towards money is because of my mum and dad. My parents have always worked full time and I've always had that work ethic in me.

  Amy Childs

  Attitude, Dad, Work Ethic

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• My parents used to say to me to save. Always save. They also told me to invest in properties and to never go over your monthly allowance.

  Amy Childs

  Over You, Used, Allowance

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

  Ridley Scott

  Crazy, Hard Work, School

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Obviously, for the majority of parents and certainly me you gain a million worlds when you have a child. Certainly, it's the thing that's changed my life and made me unbelievably happy.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Majority, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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