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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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"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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"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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"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
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"I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'"
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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 learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents."
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"I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
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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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"When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents."
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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
"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
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."
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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."
Business
"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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"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."
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