I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.
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JULIE KLAUSNER I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on ph... PAM GRIER There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like ... JIM LEACH I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fost... SHERRI SAUM I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I... ANSON MOUNT My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I di... TAMARA TUNIE I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign pol... TED CRUZ More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life. MIKHAIL GORBACHEV The central planners of Democratic Socialism tighten their noose when people resist their plans and ... A.E. SAMAAN The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented, but that socialism has b... DONALD J. TRUMP I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate ... RICHARD M. NIXON Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I grew up in the '50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would ope... GREGORY HINES Angela Davis's legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly... HENRY GIROUX Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance... NANCY GIBBS Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it w... J. D. VANCE I think that Rand Paul represents a segment of the GOP, just like his father. And I think he is tryi... JOHN MCCAIN My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single fa... KID CUDI Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - b... NANCY GIBBS I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was... JANE LYNCH All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum. A.E. SAMAAN I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group r... CLARENCE THOMAS I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinio... MELONIE DIAZ With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communis... JACK KEMP You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that... So, what next!?... DEYTH BANGER There is a page in 'Diary of a Worm' in which the worm tells his sister that no matter how m... DOREEN CRONIN I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston.... DULE HILL Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting s... JOHN H. MCCOMB I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, whic... JACK DAVENPORT I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and... JILL SCOTT I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX The majority of my family is Auburn fans, and I grew up watching Auburn football, and that's alw... KATHERINE WEBB The goal of socialism is communism. VLADIMIR LENIN I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Re... MAGGIE LAWSON No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes ... CHARLES E. WILSON My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's ... TATIANA MASLANY The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy;... HUGO CHAVEZ I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by... DICKEY BETTS Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a kno... JOSH GAD Socialism is Communism in it's infancy LINDA DIGRAZIA I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education. WEILI DAI If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources... REID HOFFMAN I grew up in a very traditional family, but there was never anything I didn't think I could do. HUMA ABEDIN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to... LYSANDER SPOONER Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism. BENJAMIN TUCKER I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we co... PETRA NEMCOVA I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of... WILL WRIGHT Not only has Paul Ryan not died on any hill for a position he believes in to make government smaller... PAUL NEHLEN I'm not Amish, but I grew up in that same area of Pennsylvania and became very attracted to the ... THOM BROWNE II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, s... NATHALIE KELLEY When I grew up, my family, we sat down, all of us to watch 'Good Times,' 'Sanford and So... MAGIC JOHNSON I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up... LAKEITH STANFIELD In order for President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden to be moderates, they just have to pres... DONNA BRAZILE It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country&... EISAKU SATO It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps ... FRANCES O'GRADY I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very spo... CHAD HARBACH You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've wri... ATHOL FUGARD I grew up in a family that was committed to service, to reaching out and helping others. That's ... CARY KENNEDY In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his tr... JOSHUA COHEN My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either wi... KSENIA SOLO I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only i... TINA FEY I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up bei... KATHARINE ISABELLE I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this... MICHELLE FORBES I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five. AKHMAD KADYROV I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I li... SHERMAN ALEXIE I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for bein... MAGGIE SIFF Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individua... JANE AUSTEN I grew up hunting and fishing. I've always been into archery. I've always been into cars... ... PAUL WALKER Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or w... CALVIN COOLIDGE She retains the rights that a parent has, and she can proceed like any other parent in trying to det... ERIC GEORGE There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for politic... ARLEN SPECTER The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natura... LYSANDER SPOONER It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have... REBECCA SOLNIT I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We su... KOREN ZAILCKAS No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would gi... WALTON GOGGINS I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I nev... RUTH NEGGA FUCK "UNITY"!! What a pathetic way of thinking. How arrogant of Progressives to think that my ... A.E. SAMAAN But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's... TEA LEONI I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her fami... LARRY HAGMAN Paul Dyson accepts he unlawfully assaulted Joanne Nelson but denies her murder on the basis that his... GARY BURRELL I grew up in Flagstaff, and I still own my old family house up there, so I go up there a couple of t... DIANA GABALDON A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equ... LYSANDER SPOONER If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in t... JOHANN MOST I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said... INDRA NOOYI It's weird, I grew up in California, and I've only surfed, like, once. RILEY KEOUGH
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