Raised Quotes - Page 4

• My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

  Steve Carell

  Death, New York, Husband

  "Steve Carell: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2013.

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• I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.

  Tia Carrere

  Chinese, Hawaii, Descent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

  Vin Diesel

  Teacher, New York, Father

  "Vin Diesel Says ‘Fast Five’ is Part of a New ‘Furious’ Trilogy". Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. January 25, 2011.

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• I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mom, Strong, Brother

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• Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Bird, Feelings

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• Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Mother, Home, Men

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.

  Paloma Faith

  Scotch, Eggs, Meals

  "Paloma Faith: 'I woo people with food, so I'm always cooking'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where "open form" or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term "heightened speech".

  James Fenton

  Memories, Voice, Aftermath

  "Where poetry and music divide" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, School, Theme

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• I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

  Sally Field

  Eye, Long, Judging

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• But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Song, Voice, Yesterday

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• If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

  Tom Ford

  Parent, Environmental, Open Minded

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• I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

  Lady Gaga

  Bullying, School, Kids

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• I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.

  Ernest Gaines

  Brother, Responsibility, Thinking

  Live chat, cnn.com. May 13, 1999.

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• Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

  Henry Louis Gates

  College, Generations, Educated

  "35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he didn't know how to show his love - but secretly he cared! I completely bought that. The men I chased and the things I put up with - it was criminal.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Sarcastic, Men, Southern

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

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• This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Mom, Kids, African American

  "Get Mad as Hell About Citizens United and Register to Vote" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Live Life, Apology

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Sanctity, Reverence

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• Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Parent, Looks

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• My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Musical, Theatre, Classic Movie

  "Jake Gyllenhaal: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.

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• My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

  Robert Griffin III

  Race, Self, Color

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• My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

  Steve Harvey

  Mother, Home, Sunday

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

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• I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Steve Harvey: The 'Think Like a Man' Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.

  Patricia Heaton

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  "Witness to the Light: Inspiring Daily Devotions". Book by Stephen J. Carter, January 1, 2006.

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