Ellie Goulding Quote: 'My mum was too busy raising ...'

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Profession: Musician
Nationality: English
Birthday: December 30, 1986

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David Suzuki

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I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

Isabelle Adjani

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Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have.

Michael Winslow

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I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

Freddy Adu

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If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

John Glenn

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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Alexander Pope

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We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing.

River Phoenix

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You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

Thomas Keneally

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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.

Ian McShane

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I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am.

Howard Dean

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I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.

Vanilla Ice

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Laugh at yourself - a lot. My mum taught me not to take myself too seriously.

Michelle Dockery

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My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.

Sullivan Stapleton

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Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.

Tony Campolo

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People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.

Zoe Kazan

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I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.

Gaby Hoffmann

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The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.

Gina McKee

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The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

Grover Norquist

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I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

Bruce Dickinson

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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.

Ze Frank

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