Grew Up Quotes - Page 32

• I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

  Alexis Stewart

  Gun, Glue, Grew

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• I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act

  Willie Mays

  Kids, White, Issues

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• I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.

  George W. Bush

  Growing Up, Ocean, Fishing

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• I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

  Lucretia Mott

  Rights, Important, Grew

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• I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.

  Vin Diesel

  Art, New York, Government

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• I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

  Jonah Hill

  Inspirational, Basketball, Baseball

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

  Abel Ferrara

  Baseball, Guitar, Creative

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 27, 2002.

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• I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

  Cate Blanchett

  Birthday, Mother, Strong

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• I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

  Edward Norton

  Birthday, Children, Age

  Interview With Scott B., www.ign.com. March 28, 2002.

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• Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

  Taylor Dane

  Thinking, People, Black

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• Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

  Janet Flanner

  Baby, War, Fighting

  Janet Flanner (1985). “Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend”, Random House (NY)

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• I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

  John Hume

  Example, Discrimination, Worst

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way

  Lucinda Williams

  Independent, Ideas, People

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• I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

  George McGovern

  Boys, South Dakota, Prairie

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• I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

  Darius Rucker

  School, Kids, Worry

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

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• I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

  Adam Sandler

  Parent, Natural, Cursing

  "Adam Sandler Talks THAT’S MY BOY, Leaving SNL, and Returning to R-Rated Comedy". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2012.

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• I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

  Christopher Durang

  Theatre, Grew

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• The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

  Clarence Thomas

  People, Black, Way

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• I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

  Maurice Sendak

  House, Mourning, States

  "'Where the Wild Things Are:' The Psychology Behind Maurice Sendak's Classic" by Mikaela Conley, abcnews.go.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

  Ron Reagan

  Father, Kids, Thinking

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• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  Lars von Trier

  Strong, Home, Emotion

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• I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

  Alan Furst

  Reading, Degrees, Eric

  "Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray areas'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2001.

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• Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

  Norah Jones

  Texas, Classical Music, Grew

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• The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

  Carlton Fisk

  Sports, Play, Turmoil

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• My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

  M. Ward

  Grandparent, Mexican, Mexico

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