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• As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improved my condition.

  Sui He

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Suffered, Encouraged

• Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods – the violent methods – that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.

  Ismail Haniyeh

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  Tags in Encouraged, Overcome

• Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

  John Shelby Spong

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  Tags in Encouraged, Immaturity

• When I was in the 9th grade I was flunking out of high school. And that’s why I’m so encouraged by the fact that America is the place where opportunity and American exceptionalism is alive and well.

  Tim Scott

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  Tags in High, High School, Encouraged

• I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.

  Paul Schrader

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  Tags in Encouraged, Argue

• I was slightly disappointed, but also encouraged, because I put myself in position to win a major, which is all even Tiger says he tries to do.

  Stuart Appleby

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  Tags in Disappointed, Encouraged

• My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It’s so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

  Betty Cuthbert

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  Tags in Encouraged

• My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

  Frank Press

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Different, Encouraged

• I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn’t.

  Connie Francis

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  Tags in Wish, Songs, Encouraged

• I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Topics in Father, Mother

  Tags in Encouraged

• I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, ‘Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,’ and he would high-five me and say, ‘Way to go.’

  Sara Blakely

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  Tags in Encouraged

• By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

  Ellen Willis

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  Tags in Expansive, Consumerism, Encouraged

• I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.

  Dave Chappelle

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Encouraged

• My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.

  Tracy Chapman

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  Tags in Encouraged, Doing

• My parents really encouraged me.

  Randy Castillo

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  Tags in Parents, Encouraged

• I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

  Bob Edwards

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  Tags in Class, Encouraged

• In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.

  Elliott Cook Carter Jr

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  Tags in Encouraged, Myself, Music

• We made satires of everything – news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.

  Lev Yilmaz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Encouraged, Totally, Broadcast

• She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

  Bill Griffith

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  Tags in Encouraged

• It is important not to copy other people’s careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father’s always encouraged me to do that.

  Nicole Richie

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  Tags in Encouraged, Copy