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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still speak to my parents only in German, and I have endless family over there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother's mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn't let her. Eventually she won, and I got a camera in about 1948, a Voigtlander.
- Custodian
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- Nov 07, 2020
Head and neck injuries are what parents thinking about letting their children play tackle football should be thinking about, talking about, and demanding answers about, from any coach presenting himself as a worthy custodian for their child's introduction to tackle football.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.
- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a distinct memory of friends I had at school whose parents were, for want of a better word, bohemian. That was the kind of England that I thought I should have belonged to.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not everyone's role model material, but we do have a sense of responsibility because kids listen more to us than they would their parents.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steven Spielberg's name was all over 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' was out the same year, which every single parent took their child to. So despite 'Poltergeist' being a horror movie, I convinced my parents to let me see it. It was terrifying. I guess this says a lot about me as a six-year-old, because I loved it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents took us to a lot of concerts. We started asking for tickets for birthdays. My sister asked to go to Madonna's 'Like A Virgin' tour. I went too. I loved it!
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- Nov 07, 2020