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  • I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
  • My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
  • We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.
  • It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.
  • Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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  • Oprah Winfrey I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism and sexism.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Laurence Sterne 'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Mark Twain All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bill Flores America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Alfred Noyes At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
    Alfred Noyes
    English poet, short-story writer and playwright (1880 - 1958)
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  • Bill Goldberg At the end of the day, leaving WrestleMania, having my hand raised, beating Brock Lesnar... I'd say it was a pretty successful tenure.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bob Barr For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Ben Simmons Growing up in Australia and the way I was raised, my dad told me to play as a team and to be a team player. You have five guys on the court. It's easy for five guys to defend one guy. It's hard to guard five. It's just a natural thing to do.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • James Thurber Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Burn Gorman I know in Britain with 'Doctor Who' all the classic actors, and the people who you'd really want to, work on the show. I like that the fact that 'Torchwood' has actors that want to be involved from the stage. It has raised our game, and I'm just happy for good actors who want to be in sci-fi shows who love the genre.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Abel Ferrara I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Adam Sandler I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Al Sharpton I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Goldie Hawn I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.
    Goldie Hawn
    American actress (1945 - )
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  • Grandma Moses If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
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  • Bernard Bailyn In England the practice of virtual representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 167
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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