- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents Quotes
On parents, and the paths they set.
This collection covers a filmmaker's frustration that an age rating kept her intended teenage audience away, and a memory of parents who worked as preachers shaping an early sense of faith. For a poetic take on family, see Shayari.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
- Breakfast
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I would make my parents breakfast in bed on Saturday mornings.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happy Days was about a family... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Safety' hysteria destroyed MySpace in the press. It got MySpace banned from schools, Apple stores, and by well-meaning parents who had been terrorized by what they were reading.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Geeks are a critical driver of America's innovation ecosystem, from the entrepreneurs launching startups in Silicon Valley to the scientists experimenting in university research labs to the whiz kids building gadgets in their parents' garages.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched my parents go from having very basic jobs to educating themselves, to buying a house. They set a really good bar for what they wanted their kids to achieve.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.
- Nov 07, 2020