“My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry.” ParentFashionIndustryFashion IndustryGestalt Author:David Lauren
“My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.” ParentFashionIndustryFactoriesLinkedFashion IndustryTextiles Author:Francisco Costa
“My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently, having a lot of fun and just doing what they wanted to do. I think that idea of independence as an artist was something I was always used to. And then I entered the industry from a very commercial perspective, and things were very different then from what I grew up with.” ThinkingIdeasDifferentWantedUsedArtistFunParentCompanyPerspectiveGrewIndustryGrew UpTheaterIndependentIndependenceRaisedSweden Author:Robyn
“I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.” PurposeParentSawsGrewIndustryGrew UpDoctorsHollywoodCaliforniaSurgeonsMotion PicturesPeacefulness Author:Spencer Johnson
“If you are a parent, if you are an educator, there are very many good and powerful reasons to take children onto the Internet, but you have to be involved with them-you cannot expect government authorities or industry authorities or other people to do your job for you, and that is to help guard your children against some of these things that are occurring out there.” PeopleIfsChildrenReasonHelpingGovernmentJobsParentPowerfulIndustryInternetInvolvedAuthorityOur ChildrenYour ChildrenFree SpeechEducator Author:Jim Carroll
“You have responsibilities and if you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job. I was fortunate to have support from my parents and sister growing up and that helped me a lot.” IfsWantNeedsJobsParentResponsibilitySupportGrowing UpGrowingIndustryFortunateBeing The BestDedicationRelentless Author:Danica Patrick
“Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it.” BookEyeFilmFormYoungCultureParentLevelsSuccessfulViolenceArmsIndustryInstinctVideoTreatmentInterfereAdolescencePowerlessTextureSchizophreniaAmbivalenceYoung Parents Author:C. Sommerville
“Unfortunately, violence begets violence. And this is how the war on terrorism seems to be going at this juncture. A lot of people are losing their lives. Many children are losing their parents. Too many houses are being destroyed. And, unfortunately, the arms industry seems to flourish.” PeopleChildrenWarSeemsHouseParentViolenceArmsIndustryLosingTerrorismDestroyedBegetsWar On TerrorWar On TerrorismJuncture Author:Shirin Ebadi
“My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.” I CanDifferentParentPoetIndustry Author:Victoria Chang
“It's interesting for myself, growing up as an Asian-American filmmaker. Coming into the industry, my parents always said, "No one's going to give you the opportunity. You just have to do the work. Be better than everyone else, so they can't deny it."” GivingSaidOpportunityParentInterestingGrowing UpGrowingIndustryDenyFilmmakerAsianAsian American Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“I think there's some kids that need to go from being a child to being a grown-up. You get out in the tech communities, the parents just apprentice their kid into the industry and they just skip being a teenager.” ThinkingNeedsChildrenKidsParentCommunityIndustryTeenagerSkipApprenticeBeing A Teenager Author:Temple Grandin