"I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there."

Robert Jay Lifton, American Psychologist

Family, Childhood

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"I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there."

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"Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter."

Sam Sheppard, American Scientist

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"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."

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"We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family."

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"I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family."

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"Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?"

Michael Madsen, American Actor

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"Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family."

Alexis Korner, English Musician

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"When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family."

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"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."

Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian Writer

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"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them."

Angela Carter, English Novelist

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"It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister."

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"I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on."

Creativity, Idea, Healing

"One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed."

Thought, Doctors, Feeling, Journey

"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."

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"Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work."

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"I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war."

War, Veterans, Vietnam

"Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category."

Blood, Doctors, Sight

"And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing."

Thought, People, First, Reform

"I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military."

Thought, First, Military, Reform

"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."

Being, Force, Medicine, Military

"It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work."

Life, Work, May, Military