Upbringing Quotes - Page 4

• In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has all of these things. All that is missing is the believer.

  Paul Elie

  Missing, Fiction, Facts

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• Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.

  Elliot Perlman

  Writing, Holocaust, Aspiration

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• In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business relations, to a principle which had been a real and intimate part of my family upbringing. Our idea was to make money and build business through serving the community with fair dealing and honest value.

  James Cash Penney

  Real, Names, Ideas

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• You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.

  Felix Dennis

  Nothing To Lose, Advantage, Loses

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.28, Penguin

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• I'm very grounded - that's how I would put it. If you met my mother, you'd probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened.

  Tracy Pollan

  Mother, Insane, Mets

  "Oprah Talks to Michael J. Fox & Tracy Pollan". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 15, 2001.

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• Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Children, Creation, Love And Freedom

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• My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

  James MacArthur

  Mother, Normal

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• I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

  Jodi Sweetin

  Parent, Hollywood, Normal

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• I really had no religious upbringing, which is unusual. But I think it saved me, because when I found the theory that I wanted to follow, I did not have anything to unlearn.

  Louise Hay

  Religious, Learning, Thinking

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• I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee and we had The Mountain Opry, where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.

  Rachel Boston

  Love, Heart, Guitar

  "5 Questions with Rachel Boston". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. April 19, 2013.

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• My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails.

  Kristen Stewart

  People, Perfect, Faults

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• My upbringing was pretty interesting. It was a rigorous, intellectual upbringing, but with the idea that we were a part of an important and legitimate enterprise. What that meant was sitting around the dinner table from a really early age with people from all different backgrounds who believed in God. When I was reporting in the wake of September 11th in Iraq and elsewhere, I felt I had the capacity to talk to people whose beliefs might sound outlandish to more secular journalists. I felt like I could be a translator between those two worlds.

  Eliza Griswold

  Interesting, People, September 11

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

  Graham Norton

  Childhood, Unhappy, Pleasant

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• The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

  David Rockefeller

  Christian, Aquariums, Essentials

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

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• All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted in principles.

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Political, Speak

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Normal, Puerto Rico, Normal Life

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

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• By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

  Eric Schlosser

  Thinking, Birth, Resilient

  "Food fight". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2006.

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• I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way. The basic challenges of getting our needs met and managing boundaries are inherent in growing up human.

  David Simon

  Growing Up, Perfect, Challenges

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• I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

  James Taylor

  Spiritual, Way, Moral

  "Singer-songwriter James Taylor". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. January 17, 2013.

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• My upbringing involves individuals who helped me along the way. I don't think I would be here today without that support.

  Dwyane Wade

  Thinking, Support, Would Be

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• I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

  Rachel Nichols

  Sports, Hockey, Fandoms

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• In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Running, Class, Campaigns

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• Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.

  Grayson Perry

  Gender, Our Family, Phenomenon

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Self, Discipline

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• On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mean, Past, Journey

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