Grew Up Quotes - Page 17

• I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Father, Anger, Saws

  "Sachin Tendulkar interview: 'I favour England to win the Ashes" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

  Charlize Theron

  Movie, Grew

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• I don't worry about protein. I don't worry about all that. I'm from old school. I grew up in south Georgia. They didn't worry about cholesterol or protein. They went out and worked and lived a long time, so I don't put a lot of worries in my mind. I just get it done.

  Herschel Walker

  School, Worry, Long

  "Nearing 50, Renaissance jock Herschel Walker breaks fitness rules" by Madison Park, www.cnn.com. October 11, 2010.

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• I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.

  Charlize Theron

  Makeup, Thinking, People

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• I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

  Marlo Thomas

  Dad, Thinking, Laughing

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• I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Years, Cameras, Three

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• Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were

  Tony Hillerman

  War, Teenager, Oklahoma

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• Social media really grew up.

  Kevin Rose

  Media, Entrepreneur, Social

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• I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

  Pete Townshend

  Inspirational, Dance, Dad

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• I grew up a Phillies fan. Me and my buddies tailgated a couple of times when they won the World Series. I like just being in that atmosphere.

  Mike Trout

  Couple, Atmosphere, Trout

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• I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.

  Josh Turner

  Simple, People, Pleasure

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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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• I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

  Gerry Cooney

  Brother, Dad, Home

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

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• America has given me everything Australia couldn't. I grew up on a dairy farm. Now I live in Isleworth, a gated community in Orlando with Tiger Woods down the street.

  Stuart Appleby

  America, Australia, Community

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

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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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• With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.

  Jordin Sparks

  Grandparent, Temptation, Listening

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• My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

  Steven Spielberg

  Jurassic Park, Leviathan, Parks

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• When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mother, Hands, Symphony

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• I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Aunt, House, Six

  "The Boss is back". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.nbcnews.com. April 16, 2003.

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• I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

  Danielle Steel

  Father, Car, Knows

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