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It's hard not to sell out because once, you know, I grew up with working-class parents who definitely, definitely would be disappointed if I didn't take particular jobs being like, "What are you talking about? I would have worked years for that money in like, actual physical labor." So there's a privilege to not selling out. You already have to be in a position where you can look at that money and not care about it.Collection: Parent
I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.Collection: Parent
I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.Collection: Parent
My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.Collection: Parent
I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive of travel and doing whatever I thought I needed to do.Collection: Parent
Sales is the parent of marketing.Collection: Parent
It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.Collection: Parent
My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.Collection: Parent
Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.Collection: Parent
I talk to my parents more than anybody in my family.Collection: Parent
The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.Collection: Parent
When Marlee [Matlin] won her Oscar, she said, "and I just want to thank my parents." When I was saying those words for her, I knew my parents were in the audience. I was saying it for her and a little bit for myself, even though I wasn't saying it in sign language and they didn't understand what I was saying.Collection: Parent
Stealing money from your parents - I feel like I did that a lot and I now know as an adult that your parents knew how much money they had. Nobody was being fooled.Collection: Parent
Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.Collection: Parent
I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as supportive as well.Collection: Parent
My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.Collection: Parent
When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know, obviously not exactly your life, but I feel that I did learn a lot about my parents.Collection: Parent
The benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birthparents punished and banished from a place in his life.Collection: Parent
My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you never learn.Collection: Parent
Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.Collection: Parent
Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.Collection: Parent
My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been.Collection: Parent
I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.Collection: Parent
It was terrifying when Aaron Sorkin announced that he was leaving West Wing, he and Tommy Schlamme. We felt like our parents were abandoning us. It was a tremendously sad day and I'm sure I will never understand exactly all the reasons why that happened.Collection: Parent
A parent has to be silent much of the time.Collection: Parent
I'm born and raised in Dusseldorf, and my parents emigrated to Germany sometime in the '70s, so I grew up completely different from any other German. I found my love in hip-hop music. Hip-hop was delivering everything that I needed: the message, the lifestyle - everything. I fell in love with it and I'm still hip-hop.Collection: Parent
Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.Collection: Parent
Actors are always looking for new territory, and playing an African figure would be really a great symbol for me because of my Senegalese roots. It would make my parents proud, so of course I'd do it.Collection: Parent
No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.Collection: Parent
The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.Collection: Parent
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.Collection: Parent
Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.Collection: Parent
And also--to add to my problems--my parents and relatives kept telling me how they'd grown up feeling so close to the Almighty that they'd spoken to Him on a daily basis as one would speak to a friend and how, now and then, God had actually spoken back to them in the form of miracles.Collection: Parent
There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.Collection: Parent
That's why I get excited over new things, because I didn't have much when I was smaller and my parents could only do so much.Collection: Parent
You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet!Collection: Parent
My parents were my worst audience.Collection: Parent
My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So thats how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.Collection: Parent
A lot of the music is the kind of thing I grew up with, listening to it with my parents. So there was a band in London called the BBC Big Band, and I sang with them. And I had never done a big band before, and it was just so fantastic and I had such a good time...so that's how it all came aboutCollection: Parent
My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldnt do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.Collection: Parent
My parents are big Shakespeare fans.Collection: Parent
All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to existCollection: Parent
I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.Collection: Parent
As a generation, Generation X or whatever we were called, we were not being nurtured. We didn't have Obama. We didn't have Bill Clinton. We didn't have any politicians that you could look up to, nor did we have parents.Collection: Parent
I only work every five years. It's exhausting. I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker.Collection: Parent
The thing that my parents have always taught me is that beauty comes from the inside, and also that beauty stems from health.Collection: Parent
I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.Collection: Parent
I've changed a great deal. I used to be vicious to my parents, just because they objected to me going full-time with a group. Now I can see that all they wanted was the best for me. And we get on great.Collection: Parent
I felt both parents at my side no matter what I did.Collection: Parent