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• Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.

  Richard Dawkins

  Jesus, Departed, Scripture

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.284, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran

  Patricia Briggs

  Choices, Identity, Heritage

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• Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.

  Nancy Springer

  Thinking, Names, Enough

  Nancy Springer (2008). “The Case of the Left-Handed Lady: An Enola Holmes Mystery”, p.92, Penguin

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• Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear.

  Douglas Coupland

  Giving, Envy, Perspective

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• A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Fretting

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• Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.

  Jesse McCartney

  Stars, Inspiration, Rocks

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• Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing.

  Bruce Feiler

  Children, Kids, Order

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• I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didnt even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.

  James Maslow

  School, People, Groups

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• Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he’ll grow up to be a demon just because his dad became one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dad, Growing Up, Father

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• During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

  Bianca Jagger

  Divorce, Years, Parent

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• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard

  Dan Fogelberg

  Real, Thinking, Made

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• I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.

  Neon Hitch

  Artist, Free Spirit, Spirit

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• Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. Many 'well-adjusted' adults are bitter, uncreative, frightened, unimaginative, and rather hostile people. Instead of assuming they were born that way, or that that's what being an adult entails, we might consider them as people damaged by their education and upbringing.

  Keith Johnstone

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.

  Sharon Horgan

  Rebel, Felt

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• It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps a fuller understanding of Proust's heredity, hinterland, and upbringing. . . . This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the position of Jews in society and, of course, the Dreyfus case. But it is essentially a study of one of the most remarkable and fruitful of mother-son relationships. As such it is a book that every Proustian will want to read.

  Allan Massie

  Mother, Book, Son

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• I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

  Fiona Shaw

  Writing, Stories, Ireland

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

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• He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

  Michael Lewis

  Blessed, Class, Mind

  Michael Lewis (2010). “Liar's Poker”, p.263, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

  M. Ward

  Adventure, Guitar, Singing

  "M. Ward's Metallica phase". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. May 3, 2007.

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• I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.

  Katherine Moennig

  Girl, Zero, School

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• My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.

  Vijay Mallya

  Father, College, Ordinary

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• I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

  Tori Amos

  Dad, Mum, Strict

  "Tori Amos: 'Anything is easier to talk about in music than in conversation'". Interview with Tim Teeman, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2013.

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• I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Unconventional

  "You must be Joaquin". Interview with Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2003.

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• Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

  Sam Palladio

  Kind, Surfer, Celtic

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• When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Religious, College, Rights

  Feisal Abdul Rauf (2012). “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

  Amy Chua

  Stress, Asking Why, Authority

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