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  One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Badass, Who I Am

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.40, PublicAffairs

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• I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Thinking, Independent Bookstores

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.119, Ballantine Books

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• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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

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• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Women

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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• People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Voice, People, Soul

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• Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

  Virginia Woolf

  Growing Up, Order, Losing

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• I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America so granted, it is part of our heritage and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.

  Joe Perry

  Running, Country, Gun

  "Aerosmith leader Joe Perry talks 'Sons of Guns,' classic firearms, defending the Second Amendment" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.

  Howard Schultz

  Dream, New York, Dad

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• I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the other honest attraction was that I just grew up loving watching TV and loving watching film, and there's so many directors and actors that I dreamed of working with, I just really wanted to take a crack at it and see if I could ever work with some of those.

  David Schwimmer

  Thinking, Directors, Watching Tv

  "David Schwimmer's Midwest". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

  Martin Scorsese

  Italian, East, Sides

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• I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

  Martin Scorsese

  Running, Kids, Italian

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 17, 2004.

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• I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

  Martin Scorsese

  Growing Up, Cutting, Thinking

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• A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.

  Jill Scott

  Girl, Lucky, Were Pregnant

  "I'm a little wounded, but I feel my mojo and I like it". Interview with David Peschek, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2007.

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• I grew up in Minnesota.

  Sean William Scott

  Minnesota, Grew

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• You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.

  Tom Selleck

  Tvs, Knows, Tv Series

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• Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

  Amanda Seyfried

  New York, First Love, Voice

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• I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, Play, One Day

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

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• I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

  Mike Shinoda

  Mom, Kids, Artist

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• Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.

  Jessica Simpson

  Southern, Church, Baptists

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• As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

  Patti Smith

  Allies, My Sister, Strongest

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• I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

  Robert Smith

  House, Parent, Bedroom

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• When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

  Robert Smith

  House, Listening, Rolling

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• I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.

  Wilbur Smith

  Father, Years, Safari

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• I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

  Wesley Snipes

  Bronx, Grew, Teach

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