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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.

— Adepero Oduye

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

— Cory Monteith

Your parents are always a big influence on you. They help you make you who you are. The main thing my parents taught me is just to be a nice person - to be generous, kind and happy. I hope it comes off when I work and meet people.

— Amber Le Bon

It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your parents, frame them in a way where you are actually taking yourself out of the equation and just look at the things that are true about their life.

— Robert Downey, Jr.

When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.

— Lisa Ling

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

— Tina Fey

My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.

— Taylor Lautner

If you are going through something with one of your parents, you know that there is this feeling inside you constantly that something is wrong. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn't matter to you or you don't care, the truth of the matter is that you do, because they are your parents and you love them.

— Brad Goreski

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

— Jaime Winstone

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way.

— RJ Mitte

My parents didn't know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well for me.

— Stella Young