amount to anything
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When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
I would never ever amount to anything without him. That's what he told me.
I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.'
I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.