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I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.
— Julie Delpy
We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.
— Slash
New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
— Patricia Clarkson
I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.
— Rick Yancey
I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.
— Dascha Polanco
It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.
— Merle Haggard
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
— Barbra Streisand
I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.
— Aida Turturro
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
— Amber Heard
I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from ... you heterosexuals.
— Ellen DeGeneres
I was raised on Broadway because of my dad, but I never thought I had what it took to make it there, although I always wanted to.
— Jennifer Grey
I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.
— Roseanne Barr
I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big deal.
— Mike Birbiglia
I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.
— Ariel Pink
With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.
— Adam Sandler
I want to be the best I can be no matter what the circumstances. That's how I was raised.
— Tyler Seguin
I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.
— John McAfee
I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.
— Julia Child
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
— Nouriel Roubini
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
— Octavia Butler
My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs.
— Carol Bartz
I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.
— Elif Safak
I sometimes forgot about how spiritual Henry was. I had been raised as a Methodist where the highest sacrament was the bake sale.
— Craig Johnson
I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.
— Nic Pizzolatto
I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'
— Matthew McConaughey
I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.
— Liz Phair
I would hope I was raised polite and charming.
— Douglas Booth
I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.
— Kitty Kelley
I was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.
— Faye Wattleton
I was raised in the city by a one-eyed mother...
— Gillian Flynn
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
— Robert Jay Lifton
I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.
— Lynsey Addario
I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
— Dan Futterman
I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.
— Desmond Dekker
People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
— Daniel A. D'Aniello
I was raised around music.
— Scott Porter
I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
— Carolyn Kizer
I definitely have a soft spot for women. I was raised by women - my mom and two older sisters. I've been surrounded by estrogen since I was born.
— Jessie Pavelka
I was taught very well. My mom raised me very well, and so did my dad. I've been very blessed to have great parents that cared about me.
— Justin Bieber
I was raised Catholic. Guilt is my resting state.
— Paul Doiron
I try to understand faith and religion. I was raised by wonderful Catholic parents who were deeply faithful and taught us that God is a God of love.
— Roxane Gay
I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter..
— Drew Carey
I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.
— Chuck Feeney
I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.
— Jojo
I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car.
— Mary Sue Terry
I actually love fish and vegetables. I was raised on vegetables! Anything green - spinach, broccoli, brussels sprouts - I crave.
— Eva Longoria
Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.
— Gil Scott-Heron
I was raised on pop music.
— Jane Siberry
I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
— Patricia Heaton
I was born and raised Catholic.
— Tom Araya
I was raised to face any challenge.
— Louis Zamperini
I was raised on Bruce Lee.
— Bridget Fonda
Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.
— Arthur Rock
I was raised to believe that you're safe in God's hands. But I don't feel safe with myself.
— Megan Fox
I'm not perfect. This is how I was raised. If I wasn't in the industry, I'd be the same person.
— Raven-Symone
I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
— Tamara Ecclestone
I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
— IO Tillett Wright
I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
— Natasha Leggero
I think we're in a time when everyone's afraid to have sex. But I was raised being beautiful and healthy.
— Alyssa Milano
I was raised with all the advantages except a backbone.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I was raised that emotion was a good thing.
— Jordan Peele
He raised an eyebrow. That was easier than I expected. My body must have addled your good sense.
— Michelle Hodkin
I was born and raised a guido. It's just a lifestyle, it's being Italian, it's representing, family, friends, tanning, gel, everything.
— Pauly D
I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.
— Regina Doman
I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing.
— Sarah Shahi
I was born in L.A., but raised in New York.
— Lucien Smith
I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop for that year, you can't go back and undo that decision.
— Roy Blunt
I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for.
— Michael B. Jordan
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
— Gore Vidal
I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.
— Homer Hickam
I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.
— Mayim Bialik
I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.
— Jimmy Connors
I was raised in a world where I had thousands of friends, each one waiting for me on a shelf every day.
— Elise Kova
Why did I accept death? But I will ask,
what use was life to me after that revolver had been raised against me by the being I adored? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
what use was life to me after that revolver had been raised against me by the being I adored? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I was raised by a hardcore feminist.
— Joss Whedon
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
— Lev Grossman
I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit.
— Stephen King
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
— Maajid Nawaz