Ione Skye Quotes

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.

I do take for granted, probably, the fact that I grew up in New York City, one of the most liberal places on earth, with bleeding-heart, liberal parents who took me to see 'Rent' and Terrence McNally plays from a very young age.

My mom wasn't so much such a great cook. But I don't know, I think I have a very strong mother, and it's funny, because both of my sisters - I have two sisters, and I'm the baby, but they all work hard. I'm not sure where I get it from, and I'm not sure where they get it from, but they must get it from somewhere... I like to work.

My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.

My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.

I grew up in San Fransisco in a very liberal community. My environment was very, very open and very liberal.

My mother was a free-spirited clinical therapist, and I had the most hard-working father, a television lighting director by trade. My mum raised me to be a global citizen, with eyes open to sometimes harsh realities.

My mom is very open-minded and has made Dad open-minded too.

There are plenty of good, rational, compassionate and talented conservatives who deserve a microphone and a platform. It's time to pass the baton to a new generation of leaders who don't speak - or think - like Archie Bunker.

My mother is a very liberal wife and mother, so there was no peer pressure to marry.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My parents were athletes in high school; my mom and my dad were the stars of the basketball team, but they never pushed my brother and me to be anything we didn't want to be.

It makes no difference to my family where one comes from as long as we make each other happy. They are pretty cool like that.

My parents took a fairly liberal approach at raising me, always encouraging me to be creative and free-thinking.

In today's world, where everybody is so anticipating the next great thing and everyone is so ready to shut the door on people, I don't really care what the world says.

I am a liberal. I have always been a liberal.

I wouldn't characterise myself as a bleeding heart liberal, whatever that is.

I think millennials are the most woke generation because they understand that differences are just in the fabric of who we are.

I've become more cause-driven as I've got older. Maybe that's a result of having kids; you become less carefree and more worried about things.

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

My mom, Latha Sriram, is my first guru.

My mom's side is very Orthodox, and my dad's side is the opposite, very liberal. I got a taste of both worlds, and I got to make up my own mind. I'm somewhere in the middle, which is a good place to be.