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• Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.

  Michael De Luca

  Heart, Missing, Trying

  "Producer Michael De Luca Says His Heart Is With the Scrappy Independents". Interview with Scott Timberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2011.

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• All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.

  John Green

  Men, May, Rich

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• it annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing, except that squirrels have had a better upbringing.

  Karl Pilkington

  Squirrels, People, The End Of The Day

  Karl Pilkington (2007). “Happyslapped by a Jellyfish: The words of Karl Pilkington”, p.62, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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• Because love stands above Darkness and Light.Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children."Because love is also Power.And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Sex, Children, Love Is

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• I had a really generic upbringing, I think, when it comes to viewing movies as a kid. I didn't really know what was out there or what was being tried. I was, like, 'E.T.' and 'Indiana Jones.' Those were the only things I knew existed.

  Shane Carruth

  Kids, Thinking, Indiana

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• The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Childhood, Made, Novel

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• It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path.

  Alice Miller

  Summer, Running, Children

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.16, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

  Abigail Washburn

  China, Make Sense, Western

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• Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.

  Silvano Arieti

  Creativity, Ego, Doe

  Silvano Arieti (1976). “Creativity: The Magic Synthesis”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said to me, "You've got to work at your career and you've got to be good at it. Okay, you've had a bit of success but that's not longevity. You've got to really work for a long time."

  Olivia Newton-John

  Mother, Intelligent, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music because of my rural upbringing. I really reduced the amount of time that sports took up in my life.I still have some Faulkner to get through.

  Nick Offerman

  Sports, Book, College

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I am the result of a loving upbringing in a peaceful country, with wonderful parents and siblings, a very long-term relationship, stability, support - but a feeling that life isn't always just and that there is injustice for people and we should do something about it.

  Michael Kirby

  Country, Motivation, Sibling

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• Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do

  Cole Porter

  Passion, Blue, Singing

  Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

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• It isn't that some gay will get some rights. It's that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents will lose the right to protect and direct the upbringing of their children. Because our K-12 public school system, of which ninety per cent of all youth are in the public school system, they will be required to learn that homosexuality is normal, equal and perhaps you should try it. And that will occur immediately, that all schools will begin teaching homosexuality.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Teaching, School

  "Prophetic Views Behind The News" hosted by Jan Markell, KKMS 980-AM, March 6, 2004.

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• What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh...Songwriting is best. It's the hardest-finest-tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

  Pete Townshend

  Father, Character, Discipline

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• My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

  Charlie Trotter

  Parent, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Ultimate

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• If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Genes, Symmetrical, Good Upbringing

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• I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.

  Kevin Bacon

  Believe, Sadness, Thinking

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

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• My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

  Drew Barrymore

  Anger, One Day, Path

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• I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Country, Boys, Men

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• Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

  Julian Casablancas

  Thinking, People, Privileged

  "Julian Casablancas: 'What would you like me to say?'". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mom, Baby, Dad

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• I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.

  Jamie Foxx

  Horse, Kids, Black And White

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• My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.

  Ellie Goulding

  Thoughtful, Four, Busy

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

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• I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

  James Hillman

  Race, Class, Prejudice

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

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