It was one of the first things I did on my own; I worked at McDonald's, raised the money and did it. I'm really, really passionate about pro-choice, because I wouldn't be here talking to you right now if I'd had a kid at 15.
All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.
I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.
I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.
I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.
Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.
In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be.
I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
We're in a very Orwellian situation where when we - we've slashed defense. And we've raised taxes. And we consider $600 billion annual deficit success because it's not $1 trillion.
I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.
My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.
I lost my virginity junior year of college, I was 21. . . I was awkward, and I was raised Jehovah's Witness so I thought sex was bad, I thought I was going to go to hell, and get AIDS immediately.
I grew up in Georgia and I think if you're raised in the South it's where a lot of the war was fought, and it's just more present in the sort of psyche of the South. So I've always just been interested and sort of fascinated by [Civil War].
Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.
Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.
I was raised to have value for money, to have respect for money, even though you have a lot of it.
I feel blessed to have been raised a Texan.