Growing Up Quotes - Page 28

• There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities that you do after-hours, rather than things that are at the heart of life. That's a huge change.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.

  George Lucas

  Country, Helping Others, Thinking

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• My dream was to grow up and get a job at IBM, like my dad. That seemed like a logical dream.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Dream, Jobs, Dad

  "Jimmy Fallon Interviews Jimmy Fallon" by Eric Spitznagel and Peter Yang, www.menshealth.com. December 23, 2014.

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• There weren't any sports figures that I idolized because I didn't really believe in myself back then or think that I could make it here. There were some regular people in my neighborhood that I looked up to growing up but that was it.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Sports, Believe, Thinking

  "Carmelo Anthony talks Michael Jordan, Collecting Sneakers and More". Interview with Brock Cardiner, www.highsnobiety.com. February 2, 2015.

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• It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them.

  Sally Ride

  Girl, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.dannyskidspage.com

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• I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.

  Mac DeMarco

  Couple, Night, Years

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples' minds and be a little bit funny and representative of who I am.

  Hoodie Allen

  Who I Am, Names, Mind

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• Everyone goes through their stuff when they are growing up. It's all relative. Everyone has the same situations on their menu. We just make the choices in terms of what situations we're going to eat.

  Gary Busey

  Choices, Stuff, Menus

  "An Interview With Gary Busey". Interview with Meagan Evans, 11thhouronline.com. March 11, 2010.

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• When I was growing up, I wanted to be a coach. I had people telling me you can't do this, you're not a great player. Be realistic. When I got rejection letters from colleges where I wanted to coach, my mom would say, "You are going to make it someday. You have something special within you and that is your spirit for life which will help you get to the top."

  Dick Vitale

  Mom, Player, College

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• I'm fascinated by offensive subject matter. Always have been. It is very natural to me, as any teach I've ever had growing up could attest.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Matter, Offensive, Natural

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• We really didn't have the option of being couch potatoes when I was growing up. There were only three television channels and the only kid's programming was on Saturday morning. We always played outside until we could hear Mom calling us (not by cell phone but with her hands cupped around her mouth) that it was dinner time.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Mom, Morning, Kids

  "Jeff Foxworthy. A comedian gets serious about reading". BookPage interview, bookpage.com. October 2010.

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• [Winning an Oscar] was a beautiful thing that happened. It is in my house, and every time I look at, I see all the people who are a part of it, all the people who gave me opportunities to work, gave me opportunities to make a living at this thing [acting] that was a dream for me, growing up. And I got to do it, and then again and again and again, and make a living out of being an actress.

  Penelope Cruz

  Beautiful, Dream, Winning

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• I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up with comics, I grew up with rock 'n' roll. And when I saw a lot of comics, no matter how good they might have been material-wise, I would get a little bored with them after 10 minutes, only because I feel comedians don't really know performance.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Wise, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I have a basic theorem as to how I do my jokes. Growing up, I knew when to cross the line and when not to cross the line. It's the same with my comedy. I know what my audience will take and how much they won't take. I can't give you a formula for it. It's my own personal formula inside my head. Somebody else's might be different.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Giving, Different, Lines

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.

  Bill Burr

  Thinking, Boys, Men

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I refuse to grow up. I won't become the adult guy.

  Charlie Sheen

  Guy, Adults, Grows

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Running, Mean, Parent

  Interview with Larry Livermore, larrylivermore.com. August 14, 2009.

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• More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in this thing, something comes up that forces us to revise our entire belief system. No matter whom you idolize, it turns out that Louis Armstrong collected vast amounts of pornography.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Matter, Taught

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Some of the greatest values that have influenced me through the years are those that I learned as a boy growing up on the farm. I remember mostly the love in our family, but I also remember the discipline. Then there was the work; we all had to work.

  Billy Graham

  Boys, Years, Discipline

  Source: www.cmstory.org

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• I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.

  Salman Rushdie

  Falling In Love, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fiction, Fields, Grows

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• Most of my close friends, growing up, were women - and even after I got married, I still maintained a lot of those friendships. But as they get married, and as I get older, I'm making a lot of the transition to the husbands.

  Andrew Gurland

  Husband, Transition, Married

  "Married showrunner Andrew Gurland is the guy laughing at the funeral". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. September 10, 2015.

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• I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

  Bob Dylan

  Hockey, Play, Age

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Magic, Energy

  "Dolly Parton: The Southern Living Interview". Interview with Jennifer V. Cole, www.southernliving.com.

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• You mostly know that you want to be funny, know that you have the desire. It's not like people who grow up beautiful and can look in the mirror and be like, I'm beautiful! Funny is more of a journey. And a desperate attempt.

  Tina Fey

  Beautiful, Journey, Mirrors

  "Tina Fey interview: 'My two-year-old will very sincerely try to choke me to death'" by Terri White, www.timeout.com. March 17 2014.

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