Growing Up Quotes - Page 23

• I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact that there was a racial difference. But I can honestly say I do feel like I missed out on some lessons of what the African-American experience is like growing up.

  Jordan Peele

  Differences, African American, Lucky

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Growing up as a black kid with a white father who loves you, who affirms you, who was part of your life is fundamentally different than what black people in my family were subjected to in the 19th century or the 18th century. But unfortunately, it doesn't change the old racial order. I think we need to let the old racial order just stay where it is and not seek to improve upon it. Not try to create more racial categories, because all that does is it makes a race stick around longer.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Father, Love You, Kids

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 10, 2010.

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• New Yorkers always hate LA! I love both cities! I do love the sunshine and the beach after growing up in rainy England.

  Louise Roe

  Beach, Hate, Sunshine

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion.

  William H. Macy

  Religious, Kids, Two

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I've definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It's that complicated balance between wanting to do what you know is right for you and not wanting to hurt someone's feelings. I think that's a part of growing up.

  Mickey Sumner

  Hurt, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s.

  John Lasseter

  Kids, Ideas, Spy

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the 30s, 40s, and 50s and beyond - but this was all prior to the information age so we didn't know about Hoover except what was usually in the papers, and this was fun, because this was a chance to go into it [ during filming 'J. Edgar Hoover' ]

  Clint Eastwood

  Fun, Age, Paper

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J. Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Growing up, I was a typical high school kid when YouTube first came out, and I was just watching a whole lot of videos of guys in the league I'm playing with now, guys that aren't in the league, and guys that came before me, just watching the moves that they do, and going out in my backyard and trying them. I did it almost every single day. And I didn't do any crazy dribbling drills or any two-ball dribbling drills. I'm really not good at two-ball dribbling. Nah, never did that. I just went out and tried the moves that I saw.

  Kyrie Irving

  Crazy, Moving, School

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• People don't walk around thinking of themselves as bad people. You're part of the environment that you grow up in, and there can be decency in that. I always try to find a little glimmer of that, in anything that I do, because you can find places where there's humor or lightness in something that's deep and profound, and that tends to resonate more and make people more human. As an actor and performer, I think it resonates more with the audience when you do have the payoff.

  Jimmy Smits

  Thinking, People, Profound

  Source: collider.com

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• They really just taught me at an early age the values of hard work. Both my parents are two of the hardest working people that I know, so that was a big foundation for me and something I really cherish and it really helped me to grow up in that kind of household.

  Blake Griffin

  Hard Work, Two, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• When I got my start, I kind of got my big break with The Princess Diaries and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: "Did you always want to be a princess growing up?" And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman. And I think a lot of women feel that way. And the fact that I am actually her is such a dream come true. It's such a pinch me moment. And the fact that I am Catwoman in Chris Nolan's Gotham to Christian Bale's Batman is unbelievably cool.

  Anne Hathaway

  Christian, Dream, Princess

  "Anne Hathaway Talks Fighting in Heels, Adapting to Nolan’s Universe, Filming in IMAX and More on the Set of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Group interview, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Today's fathers and mothers--with only the American dream for guidance--extend and overextend themselves, physically, emotionally,and financially, during the best years of their lives to ensure that their children will grow up prepared to do better and go further than they did.

  Stella Chess

  Mother, Dream, Children

  Stella Chess, Jane Whitbread (1978). “Daughters: from infancy to independence”

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• I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

  J. C. Chandor

  Film, My Family, Grows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.

  Maya Angelou

  People, Damn, Difficult

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• I'm a huge candy fan. My favorite growing up was always Sour Belts or Sour Straws.

  Kendall Schmidt

  Fans, My Favorite, Belts

  "Exclusive Q&A: Big Time Rush". Interview with Gayatri Rajagopalan, www.teenvogue.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

  Nita Ambani

  Children, Believe, Personality

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• A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Art, Moving, Cameras

  Interview with Bob Nickas, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2011.

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• My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

  Jason Kilar

  Mother, Father, Paper

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• Growing up, I kind of liked the way he (Thurman Munson) played. I didn't see much of him, but I
  remember him being a leader. I remember him really standing up for his
  teammates, and that really caught my eye.

  Jorge Posada

  Eye, Leader, Teammate

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• In my mind, my music is kind of inseparable from my hometown and my life growing up.

  Drew Holcomb

  Mind, Kind, Hometown

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• I never had that many friends growing up so I learned to be okay with just me.

  Priscilla Ahn

  Okay, Many Friends, Growing

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• Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has dreamed a sad dream, and does not yet welcome the morning with joy. The mother tells her falsehoods to her child, but, thank heaven, the child does not grow up in its parent's shadow. Our mother's faith has not grown with her experience. Her experience has been too much for her. The lesson of life was too hard for her to learn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Dream, Song

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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• I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.

  William P. Young

  Plato, Father, Kids

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• I try to sit down at night before they go to bed and read the Bible with them and do little devotionals and pray with them. I think if you instill it in them when they are young, they'll remember when they grow up. I raise them in church. When the doors are open, I want to be there. My kids love to go. So does my wife.

  Andy Pettitte

  Kids, Thinking, Night

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• Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Family, Mother

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.459

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