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“You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside of you. That's not you. That's coming from the culture. That's coming from the outside of you. You've internalized the voice of your parents, your teachers, your friends.”

Thinking Turns Culture Parent Voice Ability Teacher Who You Are Critical Turn Off

Author:Robert Greene

“It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.”

Thinking Knows Happens America Moving House Parent Divorce Files Bankruptcy

Author:Elizabeth Edwards

“Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.”

“Almost everything can be construed as sexual harassment depending upon the way it is said. One general rule of thumb is to think of your female co-workers as you would your sister. Yes, she is a woman. No, she is not a sexual object. Yes, your parents probably like her more than they like you.”

Thinking Way Said Parent Objects Like You Female Workers Thumbs Think Of You Harassment Like Her Co Worker

Author:Linda Sunshine

“I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, 'I'm chasing my kids, I've moved my parents in with me, I'm coping with food spills - that looks like me in real life'. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that's what I look like. To me, that looks true.”

Thinking Looks Real Kids Parent Bed Moved Real Life Like Me Relate Chasing Coping Spills Why Me Unmade Beds

Author:Sharon Stone

“My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.”

Ifs Thinking Strong Parent Discipline Conviction Bars Very Strong Tape Singles Soundtracks Grunge Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

Author:Adam Pally

“You lie when you're a teenager, I think, because your parents are treating you like you're younger and you - in your mind - think that you're so much older. You make up all of these lies because you think it's what you should do.”

Thinking Should Mind Lying Parent Like You Teenager

Author:Shay Mitchell

“I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.”

People Thinking Parent Support Gay Myth Gay People

Author:B. D. Wong

“I don't really date. I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college. I've always thought that's what it's supposed to be like, and if it's not, then I don't want to waste my time on it. Even when I was 14, I was like, 'I'm not gonna marry this person. What's the point of doing it?' It's not me being naive. I just know what it's supposed to be like, and I think until I feel that, I cannot be bothered.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Feels Persons Parent Known Vision College Waste Married Supposed To Be My Time Grades Naive Bothered Wasting My Time

Author:Dakota Fanning

“You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.”

People Thinking Feels Mind Children Sometimes Young Girl Parent Influence Amount Lucky Scary Fortunate

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.”

Thinking Believe Children Matter Hard Parent Can Do Born Impossible Minutes Prove Annoying Prove Them Wrong Annoying Things

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in their existence that we would wish, but I don't think censorship is ever the solution to any problem, be it societal or be it the kind of information or ideas that you have access to.”

Thinking Knows Kind Children Ideas Problem Wish Parent Interest Existence Information Solutions Access Censorship Upbringing

Author:Judith Krug

“My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.”

Thinking Want Actors Parent Rejection Want Me

Author:Rupert Penry-Jones

“I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, I could get used to this. And I just never stopped.”

Thinking Littles Self Remember Faces Used Parent Half Fronts Walking Crowds Applause Folding Walking Out

Author:Dallas Roberts

“Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think its important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.”

Thinking Wells Children Two Important Together Parent Teacher Teaching Fields Garden Accomplish Two Things Farms Connecting Curriculum Get Together Parents And Teachers Field Trip

Author:Alice Waters

“Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.”

Thinking Needs Humans Important Actors Social Parent Human Beings Acting Schooled Social Service

Author:Tyne Daly

“Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.”

Thinking Looks Actors Parent Raised Scripts Storyteller

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.”

Ifs Thinking Children Stills Matter Age Certain Dies Parent No Matter What Realising

Author:Rupert Graves

“When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.”

Ifs Thinking Parent Glad If I Could Take Me My Sister Rabbits Marvellous

Author:Maeve Binchy

“I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read Little House on the Prairie when he was in third grade.”

Thinking Knows Littles Different School Girl Reading House Causes Parent Boys Son Thirds Accounts Lists Grades My Son Boy And Girl Prairie Third Grade Like A Boy Little House On The Prairie

Author:Jon Scieszka

“I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.”

Thinking Happens Parent Interest Greater Special Mets Gun Sentiments Gun Control Hook Special Interests Sandy Sandy Hook

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasnt very hip.”

Ifs Thinking House Parent Rocks Grew Grew Up Agree Bills Hips Rock N Roll Charlie Haley Groovy

Author:Elvis Costello

“Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.”

Thinking Moments Bigs Parent Decision Experts Decision Making Routine Consistency Being There Good Parent Good Parenting

Author:Sebastian Coe

“People think living in your parents' basement until you're twenty-nine is lame. But what they don't realize is that while you're there, you save money on rent, food, and dates.”

People Thinking Parent Realizing Twenties Nine Saving Money Lame Basements

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“I registered Democrat because my parents did. They were, we were. There was no thinking behind it.”

Thinking Parent Behinds Democrat

Author:Susana Martinez

“When we make jokes about being lazy, or things that look like we're lazy parents, we don't want to make it appear like we're not also incredibly hardworking people when it comes to striving at our vocational things. I do think it's a conversation, but a lot of times, you make sacrifices for the sake of jokes, or for the sake of a scene.”

People Thinking Want Looks Parent Sacrifice Scene Conversation Jokes Strive Sake Lazy Hardworking Being Lazy

Author:Lucas Neff

“There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's fine, that's wonderful. What I am against is labelling. Nobody ever labels a child a cricketer because his father is a cricketer, but they do label a child a Catholic because his parents are Catholic. I think it's more or less unique. Nobody ever labels a child a socialist or a conservative or a liberal because that's what their parents are.”

Thinking Children Values Father Parent Natural Wonderful Fine Unique Catholic Conservative Tendencies Labels Socialist Cricketers

Author:Richard Dawkins

“It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.”

Ifs Thinking Self Kids Parent Destructive Grandparent Self Destructive Manipulative

Author:Anne Lamott

“I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm really against that. I think it's a great life, and yeah, you can lead them in that direction. I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it, they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.”

Thinking Want Kids Parent Pressure Yeah Athlete Grooming Professional Athlete

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.”

Thinking Want Kids Parent Achieve Pressure

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.”

Thinking Children Parent Disappear

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven't done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.”

People Thinking Believe Done Problem Together Young Mother Father I Believe Parent Havens Responsible Blame Units Mother And Father Sticking Together

Author:Denzel Washington

“To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.”

Thinking Needs Should Hate Parent Mystery Rocks Safe Elements Meant To Be Intrigue Rock Music

Author:Trent Reznor

“We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.”

Thinking Trying Children Home Parent Modern Broken Complicated Divorce Myth Invention Greek Divorced Widows True You Greek Myth Broken Homes New Parents Stepchild Stepchildren

Author:Rick Riordan

“If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part.”

People Ifs Thinking Country Problem School Asks Parent Attention Students Customers Pay Attention Employers

Author:Steve Jobs

“I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.”

Thinking Giving Parent Alive

Author:T-Pain

“I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.”

Thinking Knows Kind Culture Parent Institutions

Author:Margaret Spellings

“I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, This is how youre supposed to do it. And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, Heres the good stuff in life. How do you get there?”

People Thinking Kind Said Hands Stuff Parent Blueprints

Author:Rich Mullins

“I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.”

Thinking Knows Wanted Parent One Thing Approach Smart Who I Am Progressive Tick Really Smart

Author:Rich Mullins

“I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.”

Thinking World Kind Important Parent Gone Missing Translate Grandparent Stardom Great Grandparents Great Parents

Author:Yolanda Adams

“I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.”

Thinking Men Trying Bigs Running Culture Parent Youth Statements Youth Culture

Author:Chris Lilley

“I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.”

Thinking Hard Parent Hard Times

Author:Chris Lilley

“I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.”

Thinking Littles Bigs Might Mother Dies Parent Sound Talking Died Starting Albums Revelations Shock Mortality Mother Died

Author:Donald Fagen

“My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.”

Thinking Way Grows Parent Growing Up Youth Ill

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.”

Thinking Believe Order I Believe Parent Effects Accidents

Author:Patti Davis

“When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether thats as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.”

Thinking Kids Parent Natural Leader Roles Models Followers Role Models Microscopes

Author:Chip Conley

“Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.”

“I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.”

Thinking Want Should Children Parent Atheism Positive Atheism Ignorant

Author:Frank Zappa

“I think just what my parents instilled in me was hard work and being able to always go out there and focus and be 100%. I took that work ethic into the NFL and everyday I always gave 100% and never wanted anything to be handed to me. I wanted to earn it. And every time I stepped on that football field during practice I wanted to leave that football field with learning something about what the practice was about for me that day...”

Thinking Hard Able Wanted Parent Practice Focus Fields Football Hard Work Ethics Everyday Nfl Work Ethic Football Field

Author:Jerry Rice

“I think it's helpful for kids to know that their parents weren't perfect, that they messed up and learned from their mistakes. So be open about some of your own struggles or express gratitude that your kids are taking advantage of the opportunities they have instead of squandering many of them, the way you did.”

Thinking Knows Way Kids Opportunity Parent Perfect Mistake Struggle Gratitude Advantage Helpful Messed Up Expressing Gratitude Taking Advantage Squandering

Author:Emily Yoffe

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