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No I didn't. My parents were killed.


Cecilia Etkin

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MINDY KALING Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now
~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not fi...
E. M. CIORAN Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not fi...
EMILE M. CIORAN My own parents were touchy-feely.
BEN STILLER I offer deep prayers from my heart to those who were killed,
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
BEN ELTON There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
NATAN SHARANSKY We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES They were as confused as I was, but my parents were thrilled.
JUSTIN HOLEMAN I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed.
CHARLES MANSON The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- va...
CLAUDIA GRAY My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had ...
ALEXA RAY JOEL Show no love, cause love will get you killed.
CURTIS JACKSON The answer I've never had is why they were killed. There was no reason for them to be killed.
BERNICE JOHNSON My parents were hippies.
BALTHAZAR GETTY My parents were Christian.
WYCLEF JEAN Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper ...
IMMACULEE ILIBAGIZA My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.
DARA HORN No civilians have been wounded. No civilian has been killed in these attacks. All the wounded and th...
FERIDOUN SULEIMAN My father and mother were killed by the Japanese. I hated the Japanese very much.
LONG QIMING My parents were both entrepreneurs.
CAPRICE BOURRET They killed him, and they're trying to cover it up, and I'm not going to let them. They killed my ch...
GINA SLONE People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people bei...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don'...
LISA BONET I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents...
BRIDGET FONDA I am refugee now, just like my parents were from Poland,
ANITA TUCKER I'm very nurturing. I come from a large family, and my parents were loving. But the most importa...
GISELE BUNDCHEN My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
MICHAEL JORDAN Both of my parents were musicians.
BRYAN WHITE My parents were marvelously educated people.
STEPHEN FRY My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.
CAITLIN MORAN The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th...
DALEEN IRSHAID No one wanted to loan me anything. My numbers were small because I was just starting. I used all my ...
DR. CHAUVET To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I t...
JACK HANDY My parents were very relaxed about music.
AGNES OBEL My parents were really nice to me.
BRYAN CALLEN My parents were both born in England.
JANE BOUCHARD I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be n...
ABBIE HOFFMAN I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be...
ABBIE HOFFMAN I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no...
ABBIE HOFFMAN I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.
DANNY STRONG My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
MICHAEL JORDAN My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and ...
CHANG-RAE LEE In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, ...
PARMINDER NAGRA I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very stric...
TATE DONOVAN I wasn't a cheerleader or in the choir. I didnt have loads of friends.
GWEN STEFANI What killed my brother were bacteria that were found in the water right there, in that harbor.
LEONARD JOHNSON I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD Thirty-thousand Kurds were killed here, 1 million Armenians as well. And almost no one talks about i...
ORHAN PAMUK My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'
BARBARA EHRENREICH My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.
GAVIN O'CONNOR My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.
ARTO LINDSAY My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o...
PATRICIA POLACCO After my parents died, people were always asking me, 'Where are the dancers? I had no idea they danc...
JOAN BLEDSOE My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
JOHN GREEN My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
MARK TWAIN My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
MAURICE SENDAK My parents were very close in everything they did.
LINDA MAXWELL My parents were worried about their flight. They were to leave on Monday.
JOSIE NEVITT I've seen so much that no one should ever have to see, at any age. I've seen people get killed, I wa...
GRACE MUKASEKURU My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I w...
CAROL BURNETT My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist...
KABIR BEDI There were no gates, no lights, no bells, no stop signs to warn of an oncoming train, ... One month ...
RYAN MOORE I can honestly say that there was no nurturing at all. I mean, we were fed. We were well clothed. Th...
MELODY STRONG Geek e-mail sign-off: No trees were killed to send this message, but a large number of electrons wer...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other rea...
AL ROKER Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they w...
ARCHIE PANJABI I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.

Remember this.
CECELIA AHERN It just about killed me - the cuts were about a centimeter from my jugular vein.
KEITH HARRIS My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I shou...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
TAYLOR PHINNEY My parents were strict with school, strict with grades. I had piano classes, horseback riding, dance...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
QUESTLOVE My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner t...
BO SANCHEZ I always wanted to be an actress, but my parents were adamant that I complete my studies first befor...
KEERTHY SURESH There is no meat. The cattle have been killed. They're only eating corn.
CHRISTIANE BERTHIAUME I swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me.
SISSY SPACEK My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the fa...
BILL DE BLASIO My parents raised eight kids, and I'm No. 8.
DAVE WALKER I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopte...
BIG SMO I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off...
AHMET ZAPPA When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so incon...
DREW BARRYMORE In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisone...
CHARLES B. RANGEL So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also we...
LAUREN MYRACLE The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents'...
IAN SCHRAGER (Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my...
ARTHUR MILLER Both my parents were born and raised in the county. My dad - his mother and his grandparents were he...
EDDIE WILLIAMS My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.
SONNY BILL WILLIAMS The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
LALOO PRASAD YADAV My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
LAURA BENANTI My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race.
ALAN WILSON Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I ...
CINDY SHEEHAN My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every...
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CECILIA BARTOLI Sometimes I can have a desire to do this and that, but my voice-it likes to go straight.
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CECILIA MRUK If you want to create a permanent underclass, this is the way to do it.
CECILIA MUNOZ Consider, O Lover, my throat
white as cigarette paper.

The crushed lavender of my kn...
CECILIA LLOMPART Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what...
CECILIA BARTOLI You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.
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"The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who ...
CECILIA BARTOLI The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.
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CECILIA BARTOLI Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I...
CECILIA RANDELL The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine ...
CECILIA BARTOLI Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude w...
CECILIA LONDON Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars...
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CECILIA BARTOLI I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle....
CECILIA BARTOLI So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.
CECILIA BARTOLI I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi...
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CECILIA BARTOLI Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
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CECILIA BARTOLI People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It w...
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CECILIA BARTOLI So you see, movies are really another dimension.
CECILIA BARTOLI It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.
CECILIA BARTOLI Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission.
CECILIA ROTH I just love to take pictures.
CECILIA ROTH But it always came back to anger.
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CECILIA VINESSE Periodically, I return to the classics for inspiration and refreshment.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON True friendship is worth more than can be measured,
a quality forever to be treasured.
Tr...
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CECILIA DART-THORNTON I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work.
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CECILIA DART-THORNTON I was writing fantasy as soon as I could hold a pen.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON The Internet is amazing.
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