Grew Up Quotes - Page 18

• I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

  Neil Jordan

  Mean, Years, Issues

  Interview with with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Believe, Successful, Intelligent

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• My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush desert. … I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.

  Richard McKenna

  Book, Thinking, Rocks

  Richard McKenna (1972). “New eyes for old: nonfiction writings”, John F Blair Pub

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• The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

  Johann Hari

  Grew, States, Food Stamps

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2012

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• I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

  Anita Diament

  Nannies, Mary, Wanted

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• The more I sought truth uncorrupted by years of religious history, the more I kept finding answers I didn’t want to find. Emotionally, it would have been easiest for me to just hold on to what I grew up believing, but mentally that wasn’t an option anymore.

  Tim Lambesis

  Religious, Believe, Years

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• I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

  Coco Lee

  Listening, Sound, Taiwan

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• As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

  Linda Kaplan Thaler

  Powerful, Nice, Four

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• I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie Hoosiers. That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs.

  Mary Meeker

  Basketball, Believe, Differences

  "The Indomitable Mary Meeker". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 21, 2012..

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• I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Growing Up, Ukulele, Play

  "The Rock: 'THAT is what I'm cooking'". Interview With Stuart Heritage, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2012.

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• It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.

  Paula White

  College, Together, Different

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• I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don't harbour resentment.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Home, Animal, Pet

  "Ellen DeGeneres On Life & Dogs". Modern Dog Interview, moderndogmagazine.com.

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• You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Listening, Grew, Knows

  Interview with Aaron Burgess, www.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

  Jenny Agutter

  Lovely, Albums, Looks

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• I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.

  Catherine Bell

  Uncles, Hard Work, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.

  Joni Ernst

  Cutting, Yale, Iowa

  "GOP Senate candidate vows to cut pork, cites experience 'castrating hogs'". www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2014.

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• BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Etna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Block, Wine, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.26, University of Georgia Press

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• I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Father, Artist, Parent

  "Straight outta Brooklyn" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2003.

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• My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

  Laura Linney

  Sweet, Aunt, Remember

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• I grew up, probably like a lot of people, on cartoons. And I never thought I would have the chance to be in an animated movie. It's good also to show the world my sweet side with them.

  Sean William Scott

  Sweet, People, Cartoon

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• So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's perfect, we're not meant to be perfect. We're meant to be complete. But it's hard to be complete if you're trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.""And if you don't own your strength... Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who... "Who's the leader? Who's the smart one?" Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspiring, Smart, Thinking

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• Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

  Lee Konitz

  New York, Kids, Player

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• When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.

  Lisa Whelchel

  Girl, Mom, Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me, 'Why are you playing that communist game? You won't get anywhere with it.'

  Danielle Fotopoulos

  Sports, Games, Grandfather

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• I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Football, Monday, Dad

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