"You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you."

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Source : "The Power List: Adepero Oduye Primed For Hollywood Greatness" by Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

Adepero Oduye

#Light Quotes #Parent Quotes #Negative Quotes

“Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.”
“I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.”
“We share a culture focused on our clients.”
“At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.”

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.493, Harvard University Press
“When you see the crooked Warden," said Locke, twisting something in his hands, "tell hi that Lock Lamora learns slowly, but he learns well. And when you see my friends, you tell them that there are more of you on the way.”
“Nothing can make me feel better now, except cocaine.”
“We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.”
“Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.”

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