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Both of my parents were musicians. ↗

— Bryan White

#musicians #parents #were

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system. ↗

— Steven Chu

#determining #factor #families #only #other

I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen. ↗

— Karl Urban

#almost #another #before #chosen #coming

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#enough #hard #i #never #parties

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. ↗

— John Ciardi

#every #father #his #hope #house

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#i #martyrdom #postponed #preferred #prepared

The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There's a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they're like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that. ↗

— Brian Cox

#build #careers #feisty #get #go

I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#always #been #both #done #had

My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared their ideas for how to build a more equal and prosperous country. I always felt part of their call to serve and part of my father's journey. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#always #articulated #asked #build #call

It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean? ↗

— Joe Cocker

#america #audience #been #came #fans