"I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver."
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"My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely."
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"We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause."
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"Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men."
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"I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out."
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"What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody if we know nothing of the images passed to him by his imagination?"
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"Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are."
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"When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up."
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"It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town."
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"Chemistry is like an indefinable thing. When it comes to people playing your best friend or your parents or anything like that, there's always different kind of element to chemistry."
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"The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child."
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"Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant."
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"Words are the parents of a causeless wrath."
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"For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock."
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"I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten."
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"My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They told me to make sure that you are happy."
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"The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety."
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"No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest."
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"In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself."
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"[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I think when I unknowingly - when I went to do that, that's what I was - I was trying to integrate all of these very difficult things that I'd been unable to integrate in my life and in my life with my parents."
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