Upbringing Quotes - Page 10

• it annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing, except that squirrels have had a better upbringing.

  Karl Pilkington

  Squirrels, People, The End Of The Day

  Karl Pilkington (2007). “Happyslapped by a Jellyfish: The words of Karl Pilkington”, p.62, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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• I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing.

  Charlie Day

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure.

  Mike Stud

  Growing Up, Thinking, Musical

  Source: www.cavemag.com

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• I would say 70 percent of people who are in therapy are in therapy not because of their upbringing, not because of their mean sister or obsessions, but because of anxiety brought about by lack of financial security.

  John Hodgman

  Mean, People, Anxiety

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I feel like I have a very unique perspective especially for someone in the hip-hop genre. I'm not afraid to explore it, and how my upbringing then shapes my music and being a New York kid and all of that stuff...that's really the most unique thing I can offer to the music in general.

  Hoodie Allen

  New York, Kids, Unique

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• My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it.

  Doc Brown

  Hip Hop, Culture, Hips

  Source: thelatest.co.uk

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• I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I was entering marriage with the highest set of expectations that humans have ever brought to the institution. It was really good to find that out. It doesn't have to be the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the moon and the stars - it can just be the moon. It's enough that it just can be what it is.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Stars, Moon, Expectations

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

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• Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion?

  Peter Atkins

  Powerful, Simple, Thinking

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• I had an upbringing in which I was allowed to be free and use my mind. My parents only helped me to be myself. It was only in my teenage years that I met people who made me start having doubts about who I was. They said you shouldn't be confident, you shouldn't be strong. It is only when you meet those other people that you lose confidence.

  Juliette Lewis

  Strong, Teenage, Years

  "New Again: Juliette Lewis". Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn't immediately real; it was always something "out there." My deeply held illusions of immortality - a product of my very conservative religious upbringing - were still pretty much intact.

  Sam Keen

  Religious, Real, World

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

  Edward Norton

  Religious, Tulsa, Jew

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• I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.

  Karen Armstrong

  Missing, Catholic, Theologian

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Class, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I seem to respond most to places that are more cosmopolitan because of my Manhattan upbringing. Some of the major international cities I've visited, like Madrid, Rome and London, have a lot of similarities and "New York" elements while ... having their own flavor.

  Bobby Flay

  New York, Rome, Cities

  "New York restaurants are a world of good". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. May 31, 2011.

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• It doesn't matter whether you have the happiest upbringing... the young Joe Scot had the most dysfunctional family there could be but it's still a family and it's a really good, strong family. But in spite of that he runs away from home. I relate to all of those things very directly. I hit 40 this year but I still think about being a teenager and hopefully I will for the rest of my life. They are important years.

  Daniel Craig

  Running, Strong, Teenager

  "Flashbacks Of A Fool - Daniel Craig interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough manipulation of their mind and soul.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Men, Political Opinions

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On one hand, prostitutes don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life. In Bangladesh it's different because they live in the brothel, it's sort of a prison, but still there are two sides. When they think of their religion and their upbringing, they can be very moralistic. They're moralistic about giving blow jobs. On the other hand, they have an everyday life where there's no room for shame.

  Michael Glawogger

  Jobs, Struggle, Blow

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• My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as well, and God plays a big role in my upbringing and my life.

  Omari Hardwick

  Play, Priorities, Southern

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.

  Ralph Nader

  Thinking, Personality, Negative

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• I watched Elvis Presley become - I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard. I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.

  Al Jarreau

  Berries, Littles, Chuck

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• My parents came from an environment where everyone knew that the way to be successful was to get a great education, and that was going to be your ticket in life. If you could succeed in education then you would succeed in life, so that was sort of the driving force behind my parents' upbringing, and therefore kind of how they brought me up.

  Michelle Rhee

  Successful, Parent, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Thanks to my upbringing, I always believed in myself and worked as hard as I could to get where I wanted to be. Nothing was ever handed to me.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Thanks, Wanted, Always Believe

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I think subconsciously because of my upbringing, I was very aware of values and morals and that's why I experienced the occasional guilt with my habits.

  Anne Marie Miller

  Thinking, Guilt, Moral

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I had a tremendous upbringing and foundation but as others like me have experienced, when you go to college, mom and dad are no longer there to help guide. There were some moments in college that really cemented my own convictions and beliefs. It was a real period of growth and maturity in my sanctifying process. I got married in college. That was a tremendous blessing. Four years later, we started having children and that gives you a deeper understanding of the Father's love.

  Aaron Kampman

  Mom, Dad, Children

  "Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Aaron Kampman on his faith, his recent trip to El Salvador and the NFL lockout". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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