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I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
Abel Ferrara

Yourself, Teach, Taught

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.
Abel Ferrara

Read, Bible, Pushed

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.
Nikki Haley

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.
Jhumpa Lahiri

Father, Book, Night

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
Bob Barr

Life, Best, Parenting

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
Victoria Principal

Parents, Lucky, Equal

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.
Constance Baker Motley

Racism, Nation, Born

Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960's. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house.
David Cassidy

Different, Same, Child

I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them.
Evander Holyfield

Respect, Nice, Mother

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.
Aubrey Plaza

Kids, English, Speaking

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.
Samuel Rutherford

Good, True, Evil

On the other hand, we raised $25 million by going public. It's that money that we used to build this company, to build the circulation, to build a high profile and to hire staff that made Salon what it is today.
David Talbot

Money, Today, Made

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.
Kim Campbell

Hope, Real, False

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.
David Ricardo

Ourselves, Left, Present

I was raised in the church.
Kenny Rogers

I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.
Chevy Chase

Age, Movies, Real

I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn't know why he was crying.
Penny Marshall

Game, Lost, Why

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.
Dinesh D'Souza

Last, Few, Name

I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.
Connie Stevens

Mom, Beautiful, Single

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.
Danny Elfman

Music, Experience, Film

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.
Herbie Mann

Lived, Brooklyn

I was raised Catholic.
Tom Shadyac

Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
Ed Bradley

Mother, Woman, She

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.
Sydney Pollack

Movies, Sunday, Born

I was raised on NBC television.
Dan Harmon

Television, Nbc

In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.
Tim Duncan

Family, Great, After

I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.
Amber Tamblyn

Sense, Advantage

I want to let everybody know that I'm from there, and country is Tuskegee. Or should I say rather, my country is Tuskegee. I was born and raised there, it's not just someplace I passed through one day.
Lionel Richie

Through, Country, Rather

I was born and raised Catholic.
Tom Araya

My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.
Damon Wayans

Father, Hand, Jehovah

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