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As a child, I craved sophistication and culture. My parents didn't know what to make of me.
Larry Harvey
Me
Culture
Parents
Sophistication
Know
Make
Child
We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.
Larry Hogan
Education
Future
Better
Parents
Higher Education
Innovative
Jobs
Give
Higher
Ideas
Alternatives
Encourage
Children
Prepare
Need
My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.
Larry Wilmore
Parents
Before
Out
Born
Angeles
Los
Los Angeles
Moved
Midwest
Illinois
Right
When I was 4 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night and told my parents there was a witch crying outside in the boxwood bushes. I didn't know who she was or why she was crying, but I was terribly upset.
Laura Amy Schlitz
Old
Parents
Outside
Know
Witch
Crying
She
Terribly
Woke
Years
Up
Middle
Upset
Bushes
Who
Why
Night
My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Life
Service
Daily
Heart
Mother
Father
Mind
Parents
Giving
Community
Philanthropists
Extraordinary
Late
John
Generosity
Know
Most
Make
Him
Contributions
Hands-On
Story
Dedicated
Community Service
Who
Whose
Her
Started
Philanthropic
My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun, but because I want to do it so much, they agreed and supported me.
Laura Dekker
Me
World
Parents
Supported
Know
Because
Around
Always
Sailed
Want
Happen
Much
Fun
Agreed
It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
Laura Dern
Work
Parents
Mine
Always
Been
Desire
I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
Laura Dern
Love
Freedom
Failure
Achievement
People
Liberty
Parents
Sense
Sets
Run
Been
Brave
Worked
Require
Exploration
Who
Actor
Raised
Set
I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.
Laura Dern
Seen
Parents
Cried
Way
See
Something
Know
Flash
Where
At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
Laura Dern
Hope
Me
Will
Sex
Made
Parents
Sex Pistols
Clash
About
Never
Knew
Know
Learned
How
Lot
Pistols
Movie
Again
Turned
Things
If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.
Laura Dern
Great
Character
World
Money
Discipline
Word
Perspective
Parents
Sense
Every
Approach
Had
Were
Up
Artists
Different
Grew
Might
Really
Different Perspective
Who
Prepare
Each
Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.
Laura Fraser
Change
College
Parents
Nurse
Both
Had
She
Lecturer
Now
Mum
Career
My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
Laura Linney
Father
Parents
Spend
Would
Weekends
Divorced
Were
Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.
Laurel Clark
Thankful
Best
Me
Parents
Our
Out
Allowing
Most
Always
Were
Huge
Very
Huge Influence
Expected
Influence
Wanted
Them
Us
Certainly
My parents got divorced, and they both remarried other people.
Lauren Alaina
People
Parents
Other
Both
Divorced
Got
Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.
Lauren Conrad
You
People
Valuable
Parents
Advice
Young
Believe
Mentors
Been
Done
Listen
Teachers
Hard
Who
I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic.
Lauren Myracle
Parents
Realistic
Worried
Books
Worry
Kids
About
Safe
Understand
Always
Want
Keep
Why
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter
Parents
Our
Faults
Correct
Enables
Confessing
Psychiatry
Shortcomings
Us
Growing up, there wasn't an exact Hispanic role model that I had. I didn't realize how big a difference I was making, going to the Olympics and being Hispanic, until I would be in an autograph session, and parents would come up to me and say, 'You know, our family is so proud of you, you're really doing Hispanics proud.'
Laurie Hernandez
Family
Me
You
Parents
Big
Our
Say
Would
Would-Be
Exact
Had
Come
Know
Until
Proud
How
Making
Doing
Hispanic
Hispanics
Up
Model
Role
Role Model
Going
Difference
Being
Autograph
Realize
Really
Growing
Growing Up
Session
Olympics
Two people who really inspire me are my parents, Wanda and Anthony, just because they really made sure to keep up Hispanic culture in my family.
Laurie Hernandez
Family
Me
Culture
People
Inspire
Made
Parents
Sure
Because
Hispanic
Up
Just
Just Because
Really
Who
Keep
Two
Two People
My parents have tried not to intrude. They kind of stayed apart from my gymnastics but are very supportive, and that's very helpful as a gymnast to not have your parents say, 'Did you do this today?' and just be very on top of you.
Laurie Hernandez
Today
You
Parents
Just Be
Top
Say
Kind
Tried
Intrude
Stayed
Gymnast
Gymnastics
Supportive
Very
Did
Just
Apart
Your
Helpful
The best part is when parents come up to me with their kids, and they say, 'My daughter started gymnastics because of you.'
Laurie Hernandez
Best
Me
You
Parents
Daughter
Say
Kids
Best Part
Gymnastics
Part
Come
Because
Up
They Say
Started
I'm way more influenced by my children than I was by my parents.
Laurie Simmons
Parents
Way
More
Than
Children
Influenced
My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.
Lawrence Osborne
World
Parents
Otherwise
Musical
Academic
Were
Very
Arts
I think, a lot of times as women, we feel pressure from our parents, our friends: we see our friends get married.
LeToya Luckett
Women
Pressure
Parents
Think
Our
Married
See
Feel
Lot
Friends
Times
Get
Get Married
I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.
Leah LaBelle
Music
Passion
Parents
Singing
Too
Seeing
Perform
Most
Sing
Felt
Always
Been
Up
Just
Wanted
Grew
Connected
Deepest
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