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My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.

~Edgar Ramirez

Topics: Bullies Culture Days Deal Defend Father Fight First Had How Knew Know Lot Military Myself New Schools Them Transcend Traveled Unfortunately Wherever

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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.

~Edgardo Osorio

Topics: Becoming Career Clear Conservative Considered Could Doctor Fashion Father Had He Hobby Idea Lucky Me Never Plastic Point Pursue Real Since Something Started Surgeon Thought Very Wanted Young

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My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.

~Edmonia Lewis

Topics: Father Features Get Indian Industry Mother Perseverance Spirit Take

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No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.

~Edmonia Lewis

Topics: Blood Call Drop Father Full Mother Veins White

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Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Alexander Behind Brilliant Career Constitutional Convention Everybody Father Founding Hamilton He His Just Knows Left Only Secretary States Sure Thirty Time Treasury Turned United United States Young

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When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Amherst Asked Challenge College Course Economics Father Favor Loved Me Mysteries Take

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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Black Care Encouraged Father Friends He Her Home Ill Later Liked Married Match Me Mother Never Opened Really She Were Write Writer Years I Write 1950S

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My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.

~Edmund White

Topics: All Day All Night Business Day Father Go He Large Leave Night People Ran See Slept Staff Stayed Them Things Up Who Would

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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

~Edmund White

Topics: Cowboy Father He John John Wayne Sort Wayne Worked Young

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I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia.

~Edward Brooke

Topics: Chose Early Father Massachusetts Mother Party Republican Republican Party Virginia 1950S 1960S

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