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My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.
Dorothy Hamill
Best
Money
Parents
Could
Never
Knew
Lot
Did
Really
It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.
Dorothy Hamill
Today
Parents
Strictly
Those
Stay
Had
Days
Amateur
Were
Than
Afforded
Different
Wanted
Then
Olympics
I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled.
Dorothy Hamill
You
Parents
Sit
Think
Kid
Rink
About
Costumes
Driven
Spoiled
Spoiled Brat
Make
Around
Brat
Just
Skate
Anything
While
Skating
Meals
Plain
Really
Your
Cooked
Watch
My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to encourage experimentation.
Dorothy Hamill
Hope
Music
Mom
Natural
Passion
Parents
Would
Find
Something
Varied
Horses
Had
Abundance
His
Encourage
Children
Loved
Experimentation
Them
Exposing
Each
Dad
Activities
Found
Believed
Her
Too often, I hear stories of teachers and parents spending part of their paychecks to ensure there are supplies in the classroom - even basic necessities like pens, pencils and paper. This is unacceptable.
Doug Ducey
Parents
Too
Spending
Paper
Ensure
Pencils
Unacceptable
Pens
Classroom
Part
Supplies
Like
Hear
Often
Stories
Teachers
Even
Basic
Necessities
I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So I figured he was good.
Douglas McGrath
Good
Me
Remember
Parents
Sister
Nixon
He
Liked
Him
Figured
I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.
Douglas Tompkins
You
Parents
Pleasure
Out
Learned
Doing
Get
I have so many peers who say, 'I need to get away from my parents,' because even though they love the business and they love their parents, they feel like they are letting their parents down if they don't work to the bone. As a parent, you should be the safe place.
Dove Cameron
Work
Love
You
Business
Safe Place
Parents
Down
Bone
Peers
Say
Though
Parent
Feel
Like
Safe
Because
Get
Place
Should
Who
Many
Even
Away
Letting
Need
My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm my own person, and I'm making my own name for myself, I have grown up in a world where most of these people who are like me are children of famous parents. So it's easy to become the socialite and be famous for that.
Dree Hemingway
Funny
Myself
Me
People
World
Mother
Parents
Become
Own
Easy
About
My Own
Name
Like
Most
Making
Aunt
Up
Model
Person
Famous
Where
Children
Much
Who
Grown
Actress
Grown-Up
I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'
Drew Lachey
Parenting
People
Parents
Giving
Advice
Other
About
Take
Blanket
Thing
My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Dullea, who was in '2001: Space Odyssey.' That's how I got the name Karim Dule Hill. Growing up, I never liked the name Karim because people would ask me, 'Could you dunk like Kareem Abdul Jabbar?'
Dule Hill
Me
You
People
Space
Parents
Would
Could
Never
Name
Like
Liked
Hill
Because
Always
Got
How
Aunt
Odyssey
Up
Dunk
Wanted
Ask
Who
Growing
Growing Up
Actor
My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.
Duncan Jones
Me
Too Much
Parents
Own
Too
Back
Later
Joe
Drew
My Own
Attention
Name
Call
Did
Realising
Then
Much
Much Attention
Now
Now And Then
One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.
Dwight Gooden
You
Parents
Back
Able
Give
Something
Given
Much
Your
Nicest
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.
Dwight Yoakam
Education
Teacher
People
Wonderful
School
Mother
Made
College
Parents
Wish
Think
Out
High
Would
Diploma
Able
High School
Had
Come
Hills
She
Go
Were
Been
Affluent
Often
I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.
Dwyane Wade
Rights
People
Mother
Parents
Understanding
Whatever
Separation
Think
Fathers
Kids
Had
Know
Go
Years
Automatically
Happens
Many
I've always had a great relationship with my mother, and with both of my parents. We can sit down and talk about things, and even if we do argue, we can get over it and get past it.
Dylan Everett
Great
Relationship
Mother
Parents
Past
Sit
Down
About
Both
Argue
Great Relationship
Had
Over
Over It
Talk
Always
Get
Even
Things
My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.
Dylan Lauren
Birthday
Parents
Living
Trees
Factory
Rivers
Idea
Became
Candy
Screened
Land
Chocolate
Fascinated
I think my parents love that I want to do something a little different than what they do.
Dylan Penn
Love
Parents
Think
Something
Than
Different
Want
Little
I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.
Dylan Penn
Grateful
People
Achieve
Parents
Sense
Think
Find
Had
Maintained
Town
Am
Very
Normalcy
Upbringing
Deny
Privileged
Hard
Many
I didn't want to go to college, and my parents said, 'Well, then you'd better get a job, because we're not paying for you to drop out of school.' So I delivered pizza near USC for a while. We had to wear khakis and a baseball hat with the logo on it, and I worked almost every day.
Dylan Penn
Day
You
Every Day
Better
School
Job
College
Parents
Drop
Every
Out
Hat
Wear
Delivered
Had
Drop-Out
Almost
Almost Every Day
Well
Because
Said
Go
Get
Want
Pizza
While
Then
Worked
USC
Paying
Baseball
Near
I don't make a habit of watching my parents' films, because it is a little strange. But I will say that I binge watch 'House of Cards' compulsively, and I think it's the first time I've ever seen one of my mom's projects and totally forgot she was my mom!
Dylan Penn
Time
Mom
Strange
Will
Seen
Parents
First
Think
Films
Projects
Say
Totally
Habit
House
House Of Cards
She
Make
Because
First Time
Forgot
Little
Binge
Ever
Watch
Cards
Watching
My name is Dylan simply because my parents did not know before I was born if I would be a boy or a girl, and Dylan was a name that worked in both cases.
Dylan Penn
Girl
Parents
Before
Would
Would-Be
Born
Cases
Both
Simply
Name
Know
Because
Boy
Did
Dylan
Worked
Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
E. Stanley Jones
You
Stream
Parents
First
Birth
Tells
Give
Through
He
New
First Of All
Blood
Get
Cannot
Us
Much
Your
Here
Heredity
My parents have always been super supportive.
EJ Johnson
Parents
Super
Supportive
Always
Been
Both of my parents had me reading at a really young age. Maybe it was a hereditary thing, but my mom always had my nose in a book. I've always been a bookworm.
Earl Sweatshirt
Mom
Me
Age
Book
Parents
Reading
Young
Both
Had
Always
Been
Maybe
Young Age
Nose
Really
Thing
Hereditary
You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.
Earl Weaver
Home
You
Son
Remember
Parents
Living
Kid
Though
Married
Must
Adolescent
Adult
Never
Had
Until
Sure
Got
Ballplayer
Up
Close
Manager
Being
Anyone
Mean
Then
Even
Grown
Grown-Up
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