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• When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Teenager, Land, Piano

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• Young people have been educated and raised to believe that that aspect of our history disqualifies America from ever being anything that you can justify, from ever being anything great, from ever being anything with any goodness in it, that the United States is forever blemished.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, America, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If you've been preached to, if you've been educated, if you've been raised to believe that America is the most racist, the most disgustingly vile nation in the history of the world, and you are white, then you can inoculate yourself. You can immunize yourself from being associated with that aspect of American history because you are white, by becoming anti-American, anti-this and anti-that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, White, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

  Kirstie Alley

  Depression, People, Reason

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• As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

  Neil Armstrong

  Memories, Boys, Ohio

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• I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Husband, Kids

  "Chris Wallace Asks Michele Bachmann: ‘Are You A Flake?’" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2011.

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• My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mother, Teenager, Parent

  "Michele Bachmann Responds to Mainstream Media Hostility". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 12, 2011.

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• I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.

  Roseanne Barr

  Holocaust, Socialist, Zionist

  "Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza". Interview with Kathleen Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

  Roseanne Barr

  Husband, Real, Writing

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• Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

  Cecil Beaton

  Fashion, Style, Needs

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

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• It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Life, Death, Sex

  'Le deuxiéme sexe' (1949) pt. 2, ch. 4

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• Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Betrayal, Character, Actors

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• Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

  Halle Berry

  Children, Self Esteem, Self

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• I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

  Mayim Bialik

  Book, Fiction, Comic

  "Actress Mayim Bialik On TV, Science, And The Combo". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. May 4, 2012.

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• I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.

  Mayim Bialik

  Three, Comedy, Company

  "Emmys 2012: 'The Big Bang Theory's' Mayim Bialik - a Smart Bet". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 21, 2012.

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• No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

  Joe Biden

  Income, Gains, Pennies

  Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, debated in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2008.

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• When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Standards

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• I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Believe, Proud, Judaism

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• Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

  Jeff Bridges

  Joy, Trying, Technique

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• I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.

  Sandra Bullock

  Thinking, Choices, Notion

  "She's Strong, She's Sexy, She's Sandra Bullock". Interview with Anne Fletcher, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2009.

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• I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'

  Sandra Bullock

  Daughter, Thinking, Ideas

  "She's Strong, She's Sexy, She's Sandra Bullock". Interview with Anne Fletcher, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2009.

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• I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

  Octavia Butler

  Baptists, Facts, Conscience

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• I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

  Naomi Campbell

  School, Rome, London

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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• I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.

  Nick Cannon

  Children, Comfortable

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