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• My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian. — Jim Carrey
• I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as… — Amy Chua
• On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand,… — Madonna Ciccone
• What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with… — Pete Townshend
• Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training. — Melissa Gilbert
• Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto. — Eddie Vedder
• The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me. — Lucinda Williams
• A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading, — Jhumpa Lahiri
• As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read,… — Elfriede Jelinek
• You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the… — Thomas Keneally
• Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth… — Jesse McCartney
• My upbringing gave me a strong will, a mental aggressiveness in what I wanted to achieve. — Paul Tergat

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