Upbringing Quotes - Page 12

• It doesn't matter whether you have the happiest upbringing... the young Joe Scot had the most dysfunctional family there could be but it's still a family and it's a really good, strong family. But in spite of that he runs away from home. I relate to all of those things very directly. I hit 40 this year but I still think about being a teenager and hopefully I will for the rest of my life. They are important years.

  Daniel Craig

  Running, Strong, Teenager

  "Flashbacks Of A Fool - Daniel Craig interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it.

  Doc Brown

  Hip Hop, Culture, Hips

  Source: thelatest.co.uk

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• I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing.

  Charlie Day

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.

  Ellen Key

  Mother, Women, Home

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• I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure.

  Mike Stud

  Growing Up, Thinking, Musical

  Source: www.cavemag.com

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• I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.

  E. M. Forster

  Class, Worry, Support

  "Liberty In England", Speech (June 21, 1935), reprinted in "Abinger Harvest", 1936.

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• I had a very modest upbringing.

  Balthazar Getty

  Modest

  "Michelle Dockery Talks DOWNTON ABBEY Season 2". Interview, collider.com. December 30, 2011.

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• I would say 70 percent of people who are in therapy are in therapy not because of their upbringing, not because of their mean sister or obsessions, but because of anxiety brought about by lack of financial security.

  John Hodgman

  Mean, People, Anxiety

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

  Tom Selleck

  Strong, Good Upbringing

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• The beauty in the story is at one with suffering. That is also part of our upbringing - we don't think there could be beauty
  otherwise. Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is
  singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.

  Joan Chen

  Thinking, Suffering, Stories

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• I think the ultimate challenge is to have some kind of style and grace, even though you haven't got money, or standing in society, or formal education. I had a very middle, lower-middle class sort of upbringing, but I identify with people who've had, at some point in their lives to struggle to survive. It adds another color to your character.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Struggle, Character, Thinking

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• I feel like I have a very unique perspective especially for someone in the hip-hop genre. I'm not afraid to explore it, and how my upbringing then shapes my music and being a New York kid and all of that stuff...that's really the most unique thing I can offer to the music in general.

  Hoodie Allen

  New York, Kids, Unique

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• I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And I fantasized about being a drug-dealer when I was a kid. I thought it would be a good opportunity; I knew that the market would be strong. Is that bizarre?

  Jared Leto

  Strong, Kids, Artist

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• I had an upbringing in which I was allowed to be free and use my mind. My parents only helped me to be myself. It was only in my teenage years that I met people who made me start having doubts about who I was. They said you shouldn't be confident, you shouldn't be strong. It is only when you meet those other people that you lose confidence.

  Juliette Lewis

  Strong, Teenage, Years

  "New Again: Juliette Lewis". Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

  Joshua Jackson

  Ideas, West Coast, Strikes

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

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• The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

  Christopher Paolini

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1560, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

  Eddie Vedder

  Mean, Tree, Hurricanes

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• My upbringing gave me a strong will, a mental aggressiveness in what I wanted to achieve.

  Paul Tergat

  Strong, Achieve, Wanted

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• My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

  Bayard Rustin

  Spring, Gay, Grandparent

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• I enjoyed my upbringing, my siblings did, we're polite, we're respectful, but at the end of the day we're young, we like to have fun. But now, more so than ever, the youth has been vilified to the point where it feels like you can't enjoy being young any more, you just have to sit it out and wait until you get old.

  Tinie Tempah

  Fun, Sibling, Waiting

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• Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

  W. H. Auden

  Children, Recipes, Neurosis

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• Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.

  Charles Bukowski

  Real, Sadness, Inability

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Writing”, p.132, Canongate Books

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• If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese.

  Mike Schmidt

  Media, Philadelphia, Cheese

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• I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend it. I can write a complete sentence and punctuate it correctly. If I need help, I can call on judges, attorneys, educators, ministers. I wonder what I would be like if I had grown up without such protections and supports. What cracks would have turned up in my character?

  Helen Prejean

  Book, Writing, Character

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• Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion. And when religious fanaticism supplants ratiocination, all bets are suddenly off.

  Jon Krakauer

  Spiritual, Religious, Atheist

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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