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• I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever.

  Tyne Daly

  Forever, Actors, Way

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

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• I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Desert, Tides

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• If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the fact that I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away from anywhere, hardly. There's a certain set of values you learn in that experience.

  George W. Bush

  Texas, Long, People

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• What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Father, Eye, Thinking

  "Orphée Noir". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface, 1948.

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• I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

  Alison Bechdel

  Catholic, Confession, Appeals

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• My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.

  Wyclef Jean

  Uncles, Daddy, Grandfather

  "Q&A: Wyclef Jean on Bill Clinton and Haiti's New Revolution". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. July 8, 2010.

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• The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

  Danny Boyle

  Catholic, Problem, British

  Interview with Chris Tilly, ca.ign.com. January 7, 2009.

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• The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good.

  Jay Carney

  Thinking, Order, People

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• The gospel is never heard in isolation. It is always heard against the background of the cultural milieu in which one lives. A person raised in a cultural milieu in which Christianity is still seen as an intellectually viable option will display an openness to the gospel which a person who is secularized will not [as such] part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Men, Thinking

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• One could say, that #‎ Masons were raised right.

  Mo Rocca

  Masons

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• There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, lets look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.

  Marvin Harris

  Issues, Important, Needs

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• Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

  John Calvin

  Feet, Medicine, Departure

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• I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

  Nikki Haley

  Parent, Proud, Way

  "Haley 'shocked' by Time's question about Indian taxi drivers", www.foxnews.com. April 6, 2012.

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• I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.

  Scott Stapp

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Climate

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• The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Men, Pet

  "Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe". Book by Jane Goodall, 2000.

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• Even as we slog through the trials, persecutions, irritations, temptations, distractions, apathy, and just plain weariness of this world, the gospel points us to heaven where our King Jesus — the Lamb of God who was crucified in our place and raised gloriously from the dead — now sits interceding for us. Not only so, but it calls us forward to that final day when heaven will be filled with the roaring noise of millions upon millions of forgiven voices hailing him as crucified Savior and risen King.

  Greg Gilbert

  Jesus, Kings, Irritation

  Greg Gilbert, D. A. Carson (2010). “What Is the Gospel?”, p.71, Crossway

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• I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide, a sin.

  Walter Mosley

  Suicide, Fear, Rooms

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• [A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, 19 states have chosen to bump theirs even higher. Tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Two, Should Have

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

  Scott McClellan

  Differences, Speaking Up, Political

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 1, 2008.

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• My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

  Hilda Solis

  Sibling, Parent, Littles

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• I visited Eduardo Miura’s ranch in Seville where he raised bulls for bullfighting, and I was so impressed that by the time I got home I had already selected my future emblem.

  Ferruccio Lamborghini

  Home, Bullfighting, Bulls

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• My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

  Hugh Hefner

  Home, Kissing, People

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• Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period… He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!

  Berry Gordy

  Artist, Generations, Bars

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• I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure.

  Dylan Moran

  Night, Rocks, Feelings

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• Answer hopelessness with a defiant smile and a raised middle finger.

  Daniele Bolelli

  Answers, Hopelessness, Middle Finger

  FaceBook post by Daniele Bolelli from Aug 12, 2014

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