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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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"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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"I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane."
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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."
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"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."
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"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."
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"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."
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"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them."
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"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."
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"I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal."
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"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."
Parents
"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel."
Travel
"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
Poverty
"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
Class
"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."
Sports
"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."
Work
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
Parents
"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
"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
Books
"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."
Being
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