Grew Up Quotes - Page 16

• I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Growing Up, Father, Shoes

  “The Notorious Blago” by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 11, 2010.

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• When I say 'The Hunger For More', it could be referring to more success. It could be more money, or respect, more power, more understanding. All of those things lead up to that hunger for more, because my more isn't everybody else's more. I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. God forbid anything happen to me, my family is straight. So anything that happens after this is just me progressing as a person.

  Lloyd Banks

  God, Understanding, Progress

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

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• I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

  Allan Sloan

  Sarcastic, Writing, Sarcasm

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• I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Daughter, Mother, School

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• After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent film, and I must say that you're a lot like John Wayne. And I said, How so? And he said, Well, you're exactly the same in all your roles. Now, as a modern American actor, that's not what you want to hear. But for a guy who watched John Wayne movies and grew up in Iowa, it's a sterling compliment.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Mother, Father, Son

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• Large Professor, none greater none fresher,
  Won't fold under pressure...grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.

  Extra P

  Rap, Hip Hop, Pressure

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• People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

  Janelle Monae

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

  Jane Campion

  Romantic, Independence, Today

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• I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Gossip, Age, Mouths

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• I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.

  Anna Kendrick

  Crazy, People, Age

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• I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

  Sara Paretsky

  Girl, Home, Kansas

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• I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.

  Wyclef Jean

  Father, Parent, Strict

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• What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith. We're encouraged to ask whether the evidence actually supports what we're being told - or what we grew up believing - and we're allowed to ask whether we're hearing all the evidence or just some small prejudicial part of it. If our beliefs aren't supported by the evidence, then we're encouraged to alter our beliefs.

  Gary Taubes

  Believe, Taken, Law

  Gary Taubes (2010). “Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It”, p.16, Anchor

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• I grew up listening to old soul

  Erykah Badu

  Soul, Listening, Old Soul

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• I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Father, Class, Inheritance

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• I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Spiritual, Art

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.

  Wesley Snipes

  Cat, Found, Bronx

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• I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

  Wesley Snipes

  New York, Law, Citizens

  "Actor Wesley Snipes reports to prison to begin sentence" by Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. December 9, 2010.

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• My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.

  Hope Solo

  Brother, Husband, Father

  "Soccer Star Hope Solo On Loving Lost Parents". Interview with Cheryl Corley, listen.sdpb.org. August 18, 2012.

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• Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.

  Andrew Shue

  Senior, Soccer, School

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• I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak: Hyalite Peak in Montana. It was a 15-mile hike to get to the top of that, round-trip - thankfully, she said yes.

  Steve Daines

  Mountain Peaks, Climbing, Wyoming

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• So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  People, Optimism, Challenges

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

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• I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mom, Mother, Father

  "NBC's Guthrie Chats With Sotomayor About Her Love Life in Softball Interview". Interview with Savannah Guthrie, www.newsbusters.org. January 15, 2013.

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• What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession then your image of what a good lawyer is is a male image.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Doctors, Males, Lawyer

  "Sotomayor says she was 'perfect affirmative action baby'" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. June 11, 2009.

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• I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

  Wole Soyinka

  Atmosphere, Culture, Grew

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