Growing Up Quotes - Page 29

• I'm old enough to remember when there were no black quarterbacks - there were no blacks on TV. I hope my son or daughter doesn't have to be as fixated on race as I am, because he or she will grow up in freer times.

  Chris Rock

  Daughter, Son, Race

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to Australia when I was eight or nine. We lived there for a couple of years, and then came back and lived in North Wales for the whole of my teenage years... I learned how to write poems quite a lot. I just had a good time reading and reading and reading. So that's where I did most of my growing up.

  Philip Pullman

  Mother, Couple, Teenage

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

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• If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Years, Different

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Gay, Ideas

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• People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively.

  Tony Kushner

  Reading, Kids, Math

  "Tony Kushner, Radical Pragmatist". Interview with Ben Greenman, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2003.

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• For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in, the Church of Christ, encouraged a capella, but didn't allow musical instruments, so even though my parents allowed me to play trumpet in the band, and I was pretty good at it, it had this baggage.

  Gary Panter

  Play, Long, Parent

  Interview with David Jacob Kramer, believermag.com. June 1, 2009.

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• I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done songs about bad experiences, a couple about growing up in the ghetto and being abused, sexually. Being raped. And I talk about it.

  Lady Saw

  Song, Couple, Ghetto

  Interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, believermag.com. July 1, 2010.

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• He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Ideas

  "Hundreds Attend Parks Memorial in Ala". www.foxnews.com. October 30, 2005.

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• When I was growing up they used to say, "Robin, drugs can kill you." Now that I'm 58 my doctor's telling me, "Robin, you need drugs to live." I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Doctors

  "Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". TV Special, December 6, 2009.

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• I don't come from a wealthy or privileged background, and growing up I was always looking for the best quality at a price I could afford. My love of vintage is rooted in that. Drugstores were the mecca for the latest makeup trends and products.

  Eva Mendes

  Makeup, Vintage, Quality

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My favorite thing about coaching? Teaching. Being around young people, just watching a player grow and develop. You know, a young man comes in with dreams and goals and ambitions and just helping him reach (them). It's like your dad watching you grow up and like me watching my boys grow.

  Tubby Smith

  Dream, Dad, Teaching

  "Noah's interview with Coach Tubby Smith". Woodbury Interview, www.woodburybulletin.com. July 18, 2007.

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• Basically, growing up, and being a teenage kid, I've always been interested in charity. And one of the benefits of being on a TV show and having a fan base, you kind of have the power to spread news around.

  Gregg Sulkin

  Teenage, Kids, Tv Shows

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• I've sung my whole life. I did a lot of musical theater growing up, I sing in the shower, sing in the car, sing everywhere really, on set at Chuck, all the time. I like it, and I've always felt like I've had a knack for it, or a talent for it, on some level, I don't know.

  Zachary Levi

  Car, Musical, Knack

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• When Asian people grow up fast they go to college at 13. White people grow up fast it's about fudge packing and triple D's at 13.

  Adam Carolla

  Funny, Humor, College

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• It was a hard name having growing up as a child. Some kids would call me names like "Birbiglebug" and "Birbibliography" and "Faggot". Some were more clever than others.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Children, Clever

  "Comedy Central Presents / Mike Birbiglia: 2". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.

  Anne Waldman

  New York, Father, Son

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.

  Anne Waldman

  Dog, Art, Vision

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Home is home wherever you grow up generally speaking. Unless you're one of those people who always wants to get out of a small town and do something bigger with your life, which I always did but I always wanted to come back, so home is home and its a great place for me to come back and escape the hustle and bustle of the life that I live.

  Seth Rollins

  Home, Hustle And Bustle, People

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.

  Matty Mullins

  Musician, Fantasy, Music Industry

  Source: www.muenmagazine.net

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• I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.

  Stromae

  Simple, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Age, Different, Opponents

  Source: pokerworks.com

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• I don't think I really knew how fit I was when I was a kid. I rode with my dad quite long distances and I've been racing since the age of nine, so we did a lot of sport growing up. My earliest memories of my dad are watching him race, so it was inevitable when we were old enough that my brother and I would get on bikes.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Sports, Brother, Memories

  Hertfordshire Life Interview, www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk. January 2015.

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• Fashion has always been in my life, thanks to my mother and my aunt growing up. I think as I became an adult, my style evolved, and my love of fashion evolved even more.

  Olivia Palermo

  Mother, Fashion, Aunt

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I did not grow up watching much TV and film. I had a very, very, very, very, very, very church family, and a lot of, like, secular stuff was not around my house.

  Pauley Perrette

  House, Church, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up.

  Tinker Hatfield

  Sports, Loyalty, Fighting

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

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