"My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion."
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"I never got into debt because my parents had drummed into me at a young age: if you can't afford it, you can't have it."
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"All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha."
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"The only movies I saw till I was 17 were made by Disney. My parents had this thing. Disney was like, you know, "Ford is a good car. Disney makes good movies that are good for kids and safe.""
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"Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from their parents."
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"Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may destroy our bodies and our consciousness, showing ingratitude toward our ancestors, our parents, and future generations."
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"I'm surprised I wasn't sent to therapy in the childhood to be honest. I think my parents must have gotten a kick out of it."
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"there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path."
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"As a parent you protect your kids as much as possible."
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"As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can't teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities. They're their own person."
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"Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death."
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"I like to remind myself, as a parent, that God holds me responsible to, not for, my children!"
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"If parents would only realize how they bore their children."
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"It it's true that fastidiousness and attention to detail is very much in my genes - if you knew my parents, you'd see that this is something I've inherited, only doubly so."
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"I'm most proud of my kids, for one, and my family and my parents. Outside of that - what am I proud of? I don't know. 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. And I'm doing some very decent work."
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"God bless the popcorn film. Especially movies where you can take the kids, because I remember looking forward to seeing these movies with my parents, and if I can give that back, I'm gonna do it."
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"God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited."
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"Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities."
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"I hope that the economic, financial and trade blockade against Cuba will be lifted, so that the economy can grow and wages can rise. But I also hope that we will not compromise our independence and become weak, and that we will never betray our ideals of equality and social justice. This is what our parents fought for, and we owe it to them."
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"With suicide, it's a strange thing in Japanese culture. It's acceptable. My parents would have been devastated if my attempt had been successful, but they would have somehow accepted it."
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