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There are parents with wealth who just want their kids to be wealthy, and then there are other parents with money who want to teach their kids how they got it. That's what my dad was like.
Sofia Richie
Money
Wealth
Parents
Other
Kids
Wealthy
Like
Got
How
Just
Want
Then
Teach
Who
Dad
It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.'
Solange Knowles
Sad
You
Parents
Kids
Tell
Never
How
Anything
Gonna
Teachers
Actually
Both my parents are first-generation success stories.
Solange Knowles
Success
Parents
Both
Both My Parents
Stories
Success Stories
I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.
Soleil Moon Frye
Me
Together
Parents
More
Structured
Know
Am
Very
Than
Just
Far
Certainly
Organized
Who
Everyone is different, and each has to create his or her own path, irrespective of who their parents are.
Soni Razdan
Path
Parents
Own
Everyone
His
Irrespective
Different
Create
Who
Each
Her
The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first.
Sonia Sotomayor
Work
Parents
First
Pay
Enough
Meet
Resources
Neighborhoods
Give
More
Struggling
Schools
Make
Greatest
Go
Ends
Poor
Suffer
Need
An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.
Sonia Sotomayor
Happiness
People
Mother
Diabetes
Father
Parents
Poverty
Become
Own
Think
Intrude
My Own
Spoke
Since
Most
Although
Limited
Juvenile
Bilingual
English
Things
My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.
Sonny Bill Williams
Parents
Pay
Living
Struggling
Always
Cheque
Were
My dad is Japanese; he was an art director there. My mom is half-English, half-Argentinian. They met in Japan in the '70s. Her parents were diplomats posted there.
Sonoya Mizuno
Art
Mom
Director
Parents
Met
Posted
Diplomats
He
Were
Japan
Japanese
Dad
Her
I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang together and fell in love due to their singing.
Sonu Nigam
Love
Time
Together
Father
Parents
First
Singing
Become
Living
Slept
Born
Brought
Delhi
Both
Had
He
Fell
Singer
Singers
First Time
Due
Came
Were
Been
Up
Literally
Sang
Platforms
Film
Mumbai
Railway
My son is an integral part of my life; the fact of life is that parents and children need you; wife doesn't really need you.
Sonu Nigam
Life
You
Son
Wife
My Life
Parents
Fact
Part
Integral
Integral Part
Children
Really
Need
My parents taught me the value of money and working hard. And I kind of got that in me intuitively.
Sophia Amoruso
Me
Money
Value
Parents
Kind
Intuitively
Got
Taught
Working
Working Hard
Hard
By pushing children and wanting quick success, parents are producing followers, not leaders.
Sophie B. Hawkins
Success
Parents
Followers
Pushing
Leaders
Quick
Children
Wanting
Producing
I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Parents
Only
Only Child
Partners
Am
Child
Six
Different
Then
Now
My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
You
Marriage
Mother
Parents
Says
Divorce
Divorces
Without
Always
Passionate
Then
Separated
Four
I spent grade nine and ten going to school in Victoria. My parents lived there for 10 years.
Sophie Hawley-Weld
School
Parents
Nine
Spent
Ten
Years
Grade
Going
Victoria
Lived
My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy.
Sophie Kennedy Clark
Wonderful
Parents
Incredibly
Eccentric
Also
Practical
Mixture
Bohemian
I always loved being in London and being near my parents.
Sophie Winkleman
Parents
London
Always
Being
Loved
Near
I think there's a knee-jerk reaction to things from parents.
Spike Jonze
Parents
Think
Reaction
Things
Listen to your parents; respect them. They are well wishers.
Sridevi
Respect
Parents
Well
Listen
Them
Your
I was a good student. For a while, my parents did make me cope with school and films simultaneously. But after a point, this wasn't practical. I had to choose between studies and films. I chose films.
Sridevi
Good
Me
School
Parents
Films
Good Student
Point
Student
Had
Studies
Simultaneously
Between
Practical
Make
Did
After
While
Choose
Chose
Cope
I think children learn through their parents.
Sridevi
Parents
Think
Through
Learn
Children
I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.
St. Vincent
Musicians
People
Example
Parents
Living
Think
Possible
Knew
Terrify
Because
Always
Lot
Families
Did
Want
Who
While my parents both worked full-time, we still grappled with the scourge of working-class poverty. But my entrepreneurial mother used her research skills to consult. And, along with my dad, she even ran a soul food restaurant for my great-aunt.
Stacey Abrams
Food
Soul
Mother
Parents
Poverty
Research
Ran
Restaurant
Both
Consult
Entrepreneurial
Along
She
Still
Scourge
While
Worked
Skills
Used
Working-Class
Full-Time
Even
Dad
Her
My parents never ceased to struggle, but in witnessing their lives, I learned more about natural industry and leadership than in any classroom.
Stacey Abrams
Leadership
Struggle
Natural
Parents
About
Classroom
More
Never
Industry
Learned
Witnessing
Than
Any
Lives
Money dictates nearly step of social mobility from the very first moments of life. How much our parents make often determines whether we go to college. It affects the jobs we get offered and the ones we can afford to take.
Stacey Abrams
Life
Money
College
Parents
First
Our
Jobs
Determines
Take
Step
Make
How
How Much
Go
Affects
Mobility
Very
Dictates
Offered
Afford
Get
Often
Whether
Social
Much
Moments
Nearly
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