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My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.
Christina Aguilera

Mom, Blessing, Talent

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.
Hugh Jackman

Parents, Else, Everyone

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.
Neil Armstrong

Great, History, Someone

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.
Madeleine Albright

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
Karl Lagerfeld

Teacher, School, Before

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
Charles Kingsley

May, Learn, Gentleman

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
Billy Corgan

Catholic, Baptized, Roman

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan

War, Lost, America

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

Home, War, After

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
Black Elk

Life, Sick, Dead

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.
Sheena Easton

Good, Best, Mother

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.
Brigitte Bardot

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Serious, Against, England

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
David Hockney

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
Thucydides

Successful, Calm, Few

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Lane Allen

Love, Travel, Today

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
Pat Robertson

Southern, Baptist

However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between citizens and governments sharply into political thinking, paving the way for popular democracy and constitutional republicanism.
Simon Mainwaring

Great, Political, Thinking

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
Rick Perry

Society, Heart, Children

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
Giacomo Casanova

Happiness, God, After

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.
Muhammad Yunus

Family, Money, Women

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
Anthony Hopkins

Life, Peace, Wisdom

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
Annie Besant

Religion, Good, Philosophy

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
James Otis

God, Truth, May

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
Dag Hammarskjold

Truth, Fact, Last

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
Salman Rushdie

Life, End, Writing

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
Bono

Oil, Cost, Coal

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
Marilyn vos Savant

Waiting, Yourself, Book

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
William Throsby Bridges

Attention, Within, Begin

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
Francesca Annis

Giving, Working, Support

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