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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forty-six years after my parents' journey from India, here I am, the grandson of a spare auto parts salesman and a file clerk, tapped by the President of the United States to be the nation's chief communications regulator.
- Hindus
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
- Rebel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's natural to want to rebel against what your parents do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended theater camps and classes growing up, but there was never any talk of me making a life out of acting. My parents were much too practical and grounded for that.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only was I the only black kid and the only poor kid, but my parents were transcendental meditation devotees, and I live in an ashram for a good portion of my childhood.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a pretty early age, I developed an interest in travel. I told my parents I wanted to live abroad, and they said, 'Well, you have to have money to do those things.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to tie-dye T-shirts and sell them to classmates. We used to make egg rolls and sell them at street fairs. I worked at the mall. My parents probably spent more money on the gas driving me to different jobs than I made.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go visit my mom in the retirement community where my parents live, she has a bunch of friends, and she will say, 'These neighbors I play bridge with have a son with an idea,' and it goes from there.
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020