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I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.
Noah Baumbach
Time
Custody
Thought
Parents
Enough
Teenager
Out
Bad
More
Joint
Divorce
Taking
Deal
Huge
Just
Upset
Agreement
Deeper
Things
Profound
Disruption
Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.
Noah Baumbach
Parents
Could
Make
Sound
Articulate
Being
Anything
Reasonable
My parents had lots of parties. They were hopelessly bohemian. They were just 18 when they had me.
Noel Fielding
Me
Parents
Hopelessly
Had
Parties
Were
Lots
Just
Bohemian
When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.
Noel Fisher
Love
Me
Parents
Kid
Classes
Piano
Take
Fell
Encouraged
Different
Really
Many
I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains. I have amazing parents.
Noemie Lenoir
Beautiful
Food
Money
Amazing
Car
Complaining
Parents
Drive
Mountains
Saved
Would
Table
Had
Always
Am
Lot
Get
Childhood
Holidays
I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.
Noemie Lenoir
Beautiful
Food
Family
Money
Car
Complaining
Parents
Drive
Mountains
Saved
Changed
Everything
Would
Table
Had
Come
Always
Am
Doing
Lot
Campaigns
Get
Childhood
Holidays
Poor
Really
Started
I always liked performing in front of my parents' friends. My dad bought me a karaoke machine, and I would put on a Michael Jackson song like 'Thriller,' and I would come out with, like, a hat and a jacket, and, like, moonwalk in my socks, so I was always performing.
Nolan Sotillo
Me
Song
Parents
Machine
Out
Would
Hat
Thriller
Put
Bought
Performing
Come
Like
Liked
Always
Friends
Michael
Michael Jackson
Jacket
Jackson
Front
Karaoke
Dad
Socks
My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation.
Noreena Hertz
Innovation
Parents
Power
Entrepreneurs
Were
Up
Grew
Believing
What about those who help growth indirectly, those who stay at home and look after others - mothers, carers of elderly parents or sick relatives who save the state millions of pounds annually. What is their worth? How is their value to be determined?
Noreena Hertz
Home
Worth
Relatives
Value
Parents
Sick
Others
State
Those
Stay
Stay-At-Home
About
Determined
Indirectly
Pounds
Look
How
Mothers
After
Elderly
Help
Who
Growth
Millions
Save
There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own.
Norm Coleman
Better
Opportunity
Parents
Build
Own
Our
Kids
Nest
Nest Egg
Something
Come
Real
Leaves
Up
Real Opportunity
Than
Egg
Plan
Grandparents
Grow
Now
Right
Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time.
Norman Davies
Time
People
Parents
Young
Sense
Unlike
Learn
Passage
False
Up
Optimism
Very
Young People
Little
Grandparents
Grow
Filled
Grow Up
Cocoon
I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents' legacy.
Norman Finkelstein
Me
Values
Parents
Filtered
Consider
Would
Stayed
Betrayal
Through
Tenure
Catholic
Condition
Legacy
Upfront
Getting
Views
University
My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.
Norman Finkelstein
Family
Mother
Father
Parents
Every
Sides
Ghetto
Member
Both
Both Sides
Concentration
Were
Camps
Survivors
Personal
Family Member
Interest
Apart
Holocaust
Warsaw
Original
I was probably unusually close to my parents, so I do what I can now to preserve the integrity of their memory. The Holocaust deserves to be remembered.
Norman Finkelstein
Integrity
Memory
Parents
Remembered
Unusually
Close
Holocaust
Now
Deserves
Preserve
The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.
Norman Foster
Work
World
Mother
Father
Parents
Ran
Honourable
Security
Only
Never
Knew
Robert
Waitress
Shop
Blue-Collar
Moved
While
Level
There were little Charlie Chaplins that you would wind up, and they would walk. I remember vividly. I was sitting in the high chair with the little tray in front of me. My parents would wind it up, and it would walk to me.
Norman Lloyd
Me
You
Remember
Walk
Wind
Parents
High
Would
Charlie
Vividly
Were
Up
Sitting
Front
Little
Chair
I could never repay my parents for always pushing me and believing in me as much as they did.
Normani Kordei
Me
Parents
Could
Never
Pushing
Always
Repay
Did
Much
Believing
I've seen too many people who struggle financially who save thousands of dollars and go on a one year trip. And then they come back out of money, thirty years old, and back to living with their parents and saying 'I'm back to getting any job possible to get more money for travel.'
Nuseir Yassin
Saying
Travel
Struggle
People
Money
Old
Too Many People
Job
Seen
Parents
Year
Living
Thirty
Too
Back
Out
Possible
Financially
Thousands
Trip
More
Come
Go
Dollars
Years
Get
Any
Getting
Then
Who
Many
Save
Which girl doesn't see the bank balance of the guy she is marrying? Not only the girl - even her parents want her to marry a financially secure guy.
Nushrat Bharucha
Balance
Girl
Parents
Secure
Financially
Marry
Marrying
See
Guy
Only
She
Bank
Want
Which
Even
Her
I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'
Olesya Rulin
Me
Parents
Blessed
Reflect
Wow
Adult
Never
Said
Anything
Really
Who
Now
I do go back to Russia frequently, about twice a year. I hate the flight, but it's worth it. My parents have a home in a little village of 12 houses. It's not on any map, so unless you know it's there, you won't find it. Nothing works there; no Internet, no cell phone, and the land line only works sometimes. It's great!
Olesya Rulin
Home
Great
You
Cell Phone
Hate
Phone
Worth
Sometimes
Internet
Parents
Year
Nothing
Back
Unless
Worth It
Find
About
Russia
Only
Know
Houses
Frequently
Go
Line
Cell
Any
Little
Land
Flight
Works
Map
Village
Twice
Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.
Olivia Newton-John
Food
World
Parents
Nothing
See
Eating
Through
Child
Proactive
Loving
Them
Disorders
Help
Therapists
Present
Need
I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
Olivia Wilde
War
Time
Gadgets
Parents
Kitchen
Like
Know
How
Off
Up
May
Being
Grew
Explode
Worked
Each
Each Time
Things
Needed
It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.
Olivia Wilde
Good
Me
You
Son
Progress
Slow
Seen
Parents
Daughter
First
Think
Out
Freak
Someone
Having
Like
Because
Boy
Male
Lot
Quickly
Child
Just
Interesting
Then
Your
Naturally
Damaged
My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age.
Olivia Wilde
Age
People
Parents
Young
Lifestyles
Writers
Journalists
Were
Friends
Just
Artists
Young Age
Interesting
Really
Exposed
My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.
Olivia Williams
Parents
Mine
Supportive
Became
Always
Been
Friends
Who
Cool
Even
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