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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 biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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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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"Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind."
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"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
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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."
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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 regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
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"Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer."
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"My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque."
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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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"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."
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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 regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
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"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."
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"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
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"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
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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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