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"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
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"When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents."
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"I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium."
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"If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully."
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"I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same."
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"My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!"
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"I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in."
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"When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat."
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"My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much."
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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque."
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"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
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"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."
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"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
Parents
"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
Business
"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."
Work
"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
War
"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
Poverty
"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."
Parents
"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
Curriculum
"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
Mathematics
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