"It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do."
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"The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family."
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"I told my parents when I was three that I wanted to be in movies. I don't know what I saw at three years old that would make me decide that's a job and I want to have that job. But I was very confident, very sure that's what I wanted to do. I didn't do anything about it. I didn't prove it to myself or anything. I just knew."
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"I don't look back, I just go forward. I'm just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had nearly nothing, and all of the sudden, with the help of a lot of people and my parents as a model, I amounted to something."
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"I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England. It was very inspiring for me, I'd done all this traveling around, I came back living with my parents, everyone around me was like they're living in a soap opera."
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"I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing. No health insurance, so if something happened I was screwed. I was lucky my parents had money and my brother was willing to support me for a long time. Once I started doing standup, I had an income, and that was amazing to me."
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"I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering."
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"If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else."
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"The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign."
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"I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me."
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"I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work."
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"As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis."
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"Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods."
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"Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents."
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"I was an only child. I hung out with my parents."
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"The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid."
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"There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children."
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"I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker."
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"As we all know, we're all highly influenced by the atmosphere that our parents create when we're growing up. And, if we do that the right way, that carries on to the next generation."
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"I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden."
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