Adopted Quotes - Page 6

• As for complicating the black metal aesthetic, I don't care about that since it was never a goal of mine to lay out any particular preconceived aesthetic, let alone one of traditional black metal where pseudonyms are adopted.

  Colin Marston

  Goal, Black, Pseudonyms

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day. I was adopted by my foster parents, so I was comfortable with them. I wasn't in this alien place.

  Angel Olsen

  Thinking, Parent, Age

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As far as my sport is concerned, my mission is to make it as big as it deserves to be. We've been growing, it's just not as noticeable. The NCAA picked beach volleyball up to be a championship sport, and it was the fastest test sport that's been adopted. That's a really big deal for our sport because that just means the USA system is going to have a feeder system from the college system.

  Kerri Walsh

  Sports, Volleyball, Beach

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• Not only has [Donlald] Trump adopted that tactic attacking usual suspects like The New York Times and The Washington Post, but he`s turning it back on the conservative media who invented it in the first place.

  Chris Hayes

  New York, Media, Usual

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.

  Anika Noni Rose

  Children, People, Seventies

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Because of rampant inflation, living standards have been dropping for the great majority of the population. The people are poorer because standards of health and education have fallen. And conditions in the rural areas are worse off than they have ever been. So, you cannot equate the so-called open-market economy adopted by the SLORC with any real development that benefits people.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Real, People, Population

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• I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and abused by my parents. I hated life in Utah. I resented the Mormon Church, its sense of superiority and its certitude. I escaped through the Beat writers and discovered poetry and have devoted my entire life to the practice of poetry in varying ways. Poetry gave me a reason for being. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.

  Sam Hamill

  War, Teenager, Self

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was a drug addict and alcoholic. So, I think they very consciously made decisions and parented me in a way that was aimed to help save me from that. So, I knew it would be particularly painful and it was, especially for my father.

  Melissa Febos

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The thing that got me about the Orphan Trains was that the experiences were so varied. Some of the kids went from neglect and hunger in New York to loving farm families who couldn't wait to fatten them up, who gave them medical care, an education, affection. And some of the kids became the victims of terrible cruelty, and more hunger, and more neglect - it all depended on who adopted them off of the train.

  Laura Moriarty

  New York, Kids, Waiting

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was something I had a growing need for in my life, and that was about when I adopted the neglected guitar I found under our piano and started singing about all the things I could never say.

  Kina Grannis

  School, Guitar, Piano

  "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

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• We already had an adopted daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, from my previous marriage. To me, there is no difference between 'natural' and 'adopted.' My own childhood showed me that when it comes to loving your kids, concepts like that don't apply. I was the oldest of six, and three of my siblings were adopted. Mom and Dad even took in foster children. 'There are no limits to how much you can love,' Dad always said.

  Al Roker

  Mom, Daughter, Children

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• Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

  Quincy Jones

  Conducting

  "Grammy Legend Award". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible.

  Dallas Willard

  Attitude, Practice, Self

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• ...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.

  Andy Grundberg

  May, Salt, Ethics

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• In Australia we can take a playbook back to California from people who have actually adopted best practises, who have seen those practises play out over the years and plan for future droughts.

  Marc Levine

  Years, Play, California

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.

  Nia Vardalos

  Daughter, Mother, Known

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• I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.

  Michael Nyqvist

  Growing Up, Feelings, Being Adopted

  "Michael Nyqvist obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2017.

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• I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.

  Oscar Nunez

  Parent, Cuban

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• I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself.

  Judd Nelson

  Clothes, Projects

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.

  Emmylou Harris

  Country, Roots, Worry

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• Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed in. It entails that one embrace this world in all its contingency and specificity, with all its ambiguity and flaws.

  Stephen Batchelor

  World, Flaws, Embrace

  Stephen Batchelor (2010). “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist”, p.246, Spiegel & Grau

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• Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other." "So does our mailman back in North Dakota," said Adrian.

  Richelle Mead

  Two, Doe, Looks

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.140, Penguin

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• You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

  Matt Haig

  Age, Fifteen, Six

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• Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Children, Adoption

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children’s point of view.

  Michael Nyqvist

  Children, Book, Reading

  "‘Mission: Impossible 4’ Villain Michael Nyqvist Talks New Movie, Memoir". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.

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