Growing Up Quotes - Page 13

• Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

  Lucy Lawless

  Real, Hero, Feet

  "Visiting Warriors - Xena and Hercules Flex Their Muscles at NATPE". The Times-Picayune, January 14, 1997.

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• It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.

  Matt Dillon

  Home, Childhood, Interviews

  "Matt Dillon Meets Fame... Diffidently". The Boston Globe, November 03, 1983.

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• I attempt to be who I am and it's fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I'm doing can be a little crazy.

  Selena Gomez

  Fun, Crazy, Who I Am

  "Q&A: Selena Gomez on turning 21, Bieber, new album". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. July 26, 2013.

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• For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.

  Christina Aguilera

  Music, Real, Voice

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• As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.

  Robert Crumb

  Book, Kids, Old Things

  "The R. Crumb Handbook". Book by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski, 2005.

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• When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Father, Directors, Way

  "Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio Talk THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, THE DEPARTED, THE AVIATOR, GANGS OF NEW YORK, Jack Nicholson, and Much More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 9, 2014.

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• Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write and communicate in a way that I hadn't experienced growing up.

  Jack Jason

  Writing, Challenges, Way

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• So my biggest fun has been watching my daughters grow up. Now, unfortunately they're hitting the age where they still love me, but they think I'm completely boring. And so they'll come in, pat me on the head, talk to me for 10 minutes, and then they're gone all weekend. Right? They break my heart! So now I've got to start thinking, Well what's going to replace that fun?

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Fun, Heart

  Source: www.slate.com

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• To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up.

  William J. Clinton

  Important, Behind You, Share

  President Clinton's Discussion with Students at T.C. Williams High School, Alexandria, Virginia, clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov. April 22, 1999.

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• Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.

  Lauryn Hill

  America, Female, Watches

  "New Again: Lauryn Hill". Interview With Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.

  Terrell Owens

  Football, Games, Play

  "E3 2004". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 12, 2004.

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• The only guy that speaks at any sort of depth is, in my mind, Eminem. He's a guy that does music that talks about the struggles of addiction and before that violence, with growing up in a broken family, not being a good enough father. So, you know that's what I enjoy about it. It's harder to listen to than ever before because I have a bunch of kids and you just can't put it on.

  Marco Rubio

  Father, Struggle, Kids

  "All Eyez on Him". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. November 19, 2012.

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• For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good people do evil deeds? I've been interested in that question since I was a little kid. Growing up in the ghetto in the South Bronx, I had lots of friends who I thought were good kids, but for one reason or another they ended up in serious trouble. They went to jail, they took drugs, or they did terrible things to other people. My whole upbringing was focused on trying to understand what could have made them go wrong.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Kids, Ghetto, Years

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• Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

  Octavia Butler

  Anxiety, Lust, Helpless

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Imago”, p.168, Open Road Media

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• Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.

  Tim Lebbon

  Bed Of Roses, Doors, Miracle

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• Why does a dad matter so much to a daughter, in particular? A dad is the one who teaches a daughter what a male is all about. It's the first man in her life--the first man she loves, the first male she tries to please, the first man who says no to her, the first man to discipline her. In effect, he sets her up for success or failure with the opposite sex. Not only that, but she takes cues from how Dad treats Mom as she grows up about what to expect as a woman who is in a relationship with a man. So Dad sets up his daughter's marriage relationship too.

  Kevin Leman

  Mom, Daughter, Sex

  Kevin Leman (2014). “Be the Dad She Needs You to Be: The Indelible Imprint a Father Leaves on His Daughter's Life”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I never envisioned myself playing for the U.S. Olympic team -- growing up, I never envisioned playing in the NBA, to be real with you. I never envisioned that type of stuff. So this is like a dream that I never had come true. It's like I'm a part of what's really going on. It's still very hard for me to believe that I am really going to be a part of the biggest thing in the whole entire world.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Dream, Team, Real

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• That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when I was growing up, my mother didn't care. As long as I was reading, she didn't care if my room was filled with comics. I could have saved everything. I was just too stupid to do it.

  Stan Lee

  Mother, Stupid, Book

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• this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her.

  Mary McCarthy

  Lying, Sleep, Venice

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Wall, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.545, Bantam

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• I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Believe, Frustration

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• The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dream, Men, Miracle

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• Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.

  Maya Angelou

  Grows

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• The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Children, Race

  'The Napoleon of Notting Hill' (1904) bk. 1, ch. 1

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• Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.

  Ice T

  Son, Clothes, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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