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I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.
Peter Garrett
Blame
Parents
Own
Way
My Own
Issues
Up
Quite
Often
Grew
Little
Choice
More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.
Peter Hammill
Work
People
Parents
Thanks
Solo
Collections
Van
Seem
More
More People
Generator
Suppose
Know
Material
Lingering
Than
Vinyl
I was born in New York, but I was only here for two months. My parents are German, and I grew up in Germany for my first 10 years.
Peter Hermann
Parents
First
Months
Born
Only
New
Years
Up
German
Germany
York
New York
Grew
Here
Two
I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It was just something gently imposed.
Peter Shaffer
Faith
Parents
Single
Think
Brought
About
Something
Had
Household
Gently
Imposed
Up
Discussion
Just
Just Something
Ever
Orthodox
Jewish
All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to give it a lethal injection. These are decisions that should be taken by parents - never the state - in consultation with their doctors.
Peter Singer
Life
Worth
Parents
Miserable
Doctors
Living
Babies
State
Say
Worth Living
About
Give
Consultation
Disabled
Never
Taken
Permissible
Decisions
Then
Should
Lethal
The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.
Peter Thiel
Generation
Parents
First
Think
Those
About
Something
Reduced
Decadent
Expectations
Us
When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.
Peter Thiel
Education
Money
Parents
Live
Enormous
Back
Kids
Find
Invested
Well
Coming
Them
Amount
Golf has always been a part of my life. My parents have footage of me in a walker swinging a plastic club. If I didn't play golf, I would have been a baseball player. I could sit and watch baseball all day.
Peter Uihlein
Life
Day
Me
My Life
Parents
Sit
Club
All Day
Would
Could
Footage
Part
Always
Been
Walker
Golf
Plastic
Baseball
Swinging
Baseball Player
Play
Play Golf
Watch
Player
Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.
Peter York
Time
Parents
Animals
Lost
Own
Late
Books
Favourite
Some
Adorable
Had
Generations
Most
Because
Began
Children
Eighties
Interest
Available
Video
Successive
Used
Useful
My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.
Petra Stunt
Parents
Extravagant
Way
Thousands
Brought
House
Majority
Sort
Housework
Doing
Were
Up
Very
Any
Just
Staff
Workers
Mum
Dropping the news to my parents that I was skipping my 'dream education' at Chalmers to sit at home recording videos while playing video games was not easy.
PewDiePie
Education
Video Games
Home
News
Videos
Parents
Recording
Sit
Dream
Easy
Dropping
While
Video
Games
Skipping
Playing
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.
Phil Donahue
Parents
Become
Impress
Ways
Priest
Attend
Catholic
Boy
Were
His
Irish
Irish Catholic
Notre Dame
Two
Dame
States should require vaccinations for communicable diseases, like measles and the mumps. But you can't catch HPV if an infected schoolmate coughs on you or shares your juice box at lunch. Whether or not girls get vaccinated against HPV is a decision for parents and physicians, not state governments.
Phil Gingrey
You
Decision
Girl
Parents
Lunch
State
State Governments
States
Physicians
Shares
Catch
Like
Box
Juice
Governments
Infected
Get
Diseases
Whether
Against
Require
Should
Your
Measles
My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.
Phil Jackson
Family
Marriage
Passion
Father
Parents
Immigrant
Religious
Religious Beliefs
About
Puritans
Both
Had
Massachusetts
Well
Came
Were
Families
Beliefs
As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.
Phil McGraw
Parents
Our
Computer
Children
Literate
Nearly
I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things.
Phil Robertson
Good
Bible
Good Things
Discipline
Parents
Our
Out
Seeing
Lifestyle
Had
Miss
Like
Instruction
Make
Call
Sure
Around
Were
Mixed
Up
Just
Children
Turn
Turned
Kay
Code
Things
Raised
Need
All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.
Philip Kerr
Racism
Hate
Parents
Nationalism
Born
Scotland
Scottish
Grandparents
Based
I was a member of Corstorphine Library in Edinburgh, and every Friday night, my parents took me there to borrow books. I also used to spend nearly all my pocket money on books.
Philip Kerr
Me
Library
Money
Parents
Every
Took
Spend
Books
Member
Borrow
Pocket
Also
Edinburgh
Friday
Friday Night
Used
Nearly
Night
I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.
Philip Levine
Me
Invent
Parents
Sense
Those
Feel
Like
Foreign
Families
American
Just
Themselves
European
Many
As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.
Philip Yancey
Parents
Stand
Awe
At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a million a year in salary and bonus; after 10 years, you could expect a million or more. I had 60 grand of university debt, and my parents had no retirement. I needed that money.
Philipp Meyer
You
Money
Parents
Half
Year
Bonus
More
Could
Had
Retirement
Well
Well Known
Known
Making
Years
Salary
Debt
Five
Expect
Wall
Wall Street
After
Grand
Street
Million
Needed
University
My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.
Philippe Petit
Me
Parents
Honorable
Wanted
Profession
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
Philippe Petit
Time
Me
Parents
Wire
Becoming
Were
Encouraging
Intelligent
Walker
Same
Same Time
Wandering
If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That's when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics.
Philippe Petit
Me
Old
Parents
Those
Circus
High
Would
Born
High Wire
Wire
Pushed
Had
Most
Learn
Been
Years
Little
Body
Four
When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.
Philippe Petit
Life
Myself
Learning
Age
My Life
Parents
Feelings
Building
Young
Fighting
Society
Despite
Wire
Had
Walker
Teachers
Certainties
Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.
Phillip Lim
Life
Family
Business
Doctor
Engineer
Parents
Lawyer
Only
Traditional
Were
Very
Person
Options
Being
Successful
Business Person
Believed
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