Grew Quotes - Page 16

• I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn't appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Hair, Facial

  Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. May 15, 2008.

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• I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Agriculture, North Carolina, Towns

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• I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

  Carrie Underwood

  Queens, Listening, Littles

  "Carrie Underwood interview: 'I'm influenced by My Chemical Romance'". Interview with Lewis Corner, www.digitalspy.com. April 26, 2012.

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• What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

  Gregory Peck

  School, Gnarly, Feet

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• I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.

  Mike Pence

  Hero, Grateful, Heart

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

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• I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

  Katy Perry

  Ideas, Bonus, Care

  Interview with Kristen Wiig, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2012.

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• I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.

  Katy Perry

  Listening, My Family, Grew Up

  "Women in Music: Katy Perry". Interview with Julie Vadnal, www.elle.com. June 12, 2009.

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• Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.

  Tom Vilsack

  Mother, Kids, Years

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• I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

  Matthew Perry

  Hockey, Law, Canada

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• I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

  Matthew Perry

  Grew Up

  "Matthew Perry says ‘Friends’ and ‘Go On’ are his two favorite roles". www.hypable.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

  Rick Perry

  Running, Views, Water

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• I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.

  Rick Perry

  School, Awards, Texas

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.

  Chris Pine

  Father, Winning, Years

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• I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

  Christopher Walken

  New York, Real, Thinking

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• My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

  John Piper

  Mother, Gasoline, Mouths

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• I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

  Brad Pitt

  Teaching, Careers, Ideas

  "Brad Pitt: A Life So Large" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.

  Brad Pitt

  Summer, Night, Oklahoma

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.

  Brad Pitt

  Kids, Different, Culture

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting. I grew up believing in it, and it worked for me in whatever my little personal high school crisis was, but it didn't last for me.

  Brad Pitt

  Believe, School, Comforting

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• When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

  Brad Pitt

  Kids, Tulsa, Littles

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• Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

  Brad Pitt

  Ideas, Oklahoma, Feelings

  Interview with Jeff Giles, ew.com. September 16, 2011.

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• Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

  Herschel Walker

  Senior, Sports, Believe

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• Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

  Miuccia Prada

  Light, Shopping, Bored

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

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• I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

  Murray Walker

  Parent, Grew Up, Sensible

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• I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

  Dennis Quaid

  Kids, Houston, My Favorite

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