Growing Up Quotes - Page 14

• I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.

  Charlize Theron

  Mother, Clothes, Evil

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

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• Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

  Kevin Spacey

  Kids, Ideas, Television

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• My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't need to know. I can send them energy and light and help them in their evolution.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teenage, Buddhism, Light

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• Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family, so that meant that we had to kill and eat our animal friends. When you do that you are aware of the sacrifice that someone is making so that you may live. My mother always made sure we were thankful for those precious gifts.

  Roger Fouts

  Mother, Sacrifice, Animal

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• There is a report that says that kids who watch violent TV programs tend to be more violent when they grow up. But did the TV cause the violence, or do violent children preferentially enjoy watching violent programs?

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Kids, Watches

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• I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Dyslexia, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.

  Christian Smith

  Spiritual, Teacher, Children

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• I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I'm definitely a fan of science fiction fantasy. My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

  Brandon Routh

  Fans, Fiction, Fantasy

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, June 16, 2006.

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• I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

  Emmy Rossum

  Character, Stories, Grows

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• When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

  Edward P. Jones

  Mother, Jobs, Rooms

  "The two dollars a day literary sensation" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2004.

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• When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.

  Anthony Holden

  War, Princess, Issues

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• I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

  David Guterson

  Trials, Literature, Want

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• I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Want, Problem

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• If you grow up normal, you'll only be normal.

  Michelle Wie

  Golf, Normal, Grows

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• I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.

  Will Smith

  Kids, Cameras, Goofy

  "Will Smith and Margot Robbie Talk FOCUS, SUICIDE SQUAD, and More". Press conference, collider.com. February 24, 2015.

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• I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

  Harrison Ford

  Responsibility, Thinking, Stills

  "Harrison Ford Talks ENDER’S GAME, Why It’s a Good Family Movie, the Evolution of Space Visual Effects Since STAR WARS, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 27, 2013.

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• I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

  Kristen Bell

  Struggle, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Kristen Bell Talks THE LIFEGUARD, Working with Liz Garcia, Finding Out She Was Pregnant During the Shoot, and the VERONICA MARS Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 27, 2013.

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• I played football growing up in junior high and high school.

  Ryan Merriman

  Football, School, Juniors

  "Actor Ryan Merriman on his latest football film The 5th Quarter". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 2011.

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• When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh, she has a gift! They never thought of me as an entertainer when I was a young kid.

  Mindy Kaling

  Kids, Boston, Play

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• I don't think I was talking specifically about Steve Jobs. It was just a general philosophy about one person grows up and he's kind of managing companies and every day he's working making sure this is in place and that's in place.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Philosophy, Thinking

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• It's like losing a son because I loved Michael and Michael loved me. But you know, as when people grow up and they make their own decisions and they move forward, there's a distance, and I think that Michael in some cases might have gone too far with some of the things he was doing.

  Berry Gordy

  Distance, Moving, Son

  "Motown's Gordy On Michael Jackson". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 27, 2009.

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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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• You can't not be into basketball and grow up in Chicago or live in L.A., because people are so fanatical about the teams. You know what's going on with the games even if you don't watch.

  Virginia Madsen

  Basketball, Team, Games

  "Virginia Madsen on smelling Christopher Walken, getting tax advice from Arnold Schwarzenegger, and more". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. July 19, 2013.

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• I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.

  Phil Robertson

  Nerd, Want, Lasts

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• People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

  Jason Katims

  Kids, Thinking, People

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