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"I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training."
"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."
"My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician."
"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."
"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them."
"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."
"I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal."
"My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind."
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"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange."
"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."
"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted."
"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
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