Growing Up Quotes - Page 34

• I guess the most difficult thing for me was living up to my mom's expectations. I was always scared that if I didn't do things in this certain way, then my mom just wouldn't think I was great. That's something that was difficult for me growing up.

  Milla Jovovich

  Mom, Thinking, Expectations

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2009.

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• I come from a great family and I was raised by wonderful parents. There is no question that I was given a lot of interesting and unique opportunities growing up...But I think people often misunderstand that I work as hard and want things just as badly as anybody else.

  Abby Huntsman

  Opportunity, Thinking, Unique

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think being young in a grownup world, I think it stunted me a little bit. I had to grow up too fast on the outside, but I didn't get to grow up on the inside in the way that you might if you're allowed to fail more.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, World, Littles

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Although some people will say it's a cliché, I think not having had a father when I was growing up affect me negatively because I didn't have a good role model to follow.

  Halle Berry

  Father, Thinking, Role Models

  "Halle Berry Interview – Cloud Atlas – 'As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17…'". "Viva Press" Interview, www.viva-press.com.

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• Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school.

  George Foreman

  School, Lunch, Poor

  Interview with Dave Zirin, www.counterpunch.org. November 7, 2003.

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• You have responsibilities and if you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job. I was fortunate to have support from my parents and sister growing up and that helped me a lot.

  Danica Patrick

  Jobs, Responsibility, Dedication

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change in six years. The life around you changes. Your family changes. They grow up. They move away. The world is changing. You're also learning more about the subject. By the time you're writing the last chapters of the book, you know much more than you did when you started at the beginning.

  David McCullough

  Moving, Book, Writing

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• [Growing up in rural Ohio], all of my girlfriends were cheerleaders. I'm more comfortable with straight women. I don't have any lesbian friends, sadly.

  Jackie Warner

  Girlfriend, Ohio, Cheerleader

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

  Suge Knight

  Cancer, Cities, Car

  "The Life and Times of Suge Knight". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. June 18, 2007.

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• There's something about strength that I really admire, that I failed to see a lot of when I was growing up.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Growing, Admire

  Source: collider.com

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• We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact, it's invention. Hopefully, an historical film will inspire people to go and read about the history but in the end it is a work of fiction and selection. As for the armour itself, no it wasn't particularly comfortable.

  Cate Blanchett

  Children, People, Inspire

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Children, Parent, Trying

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• When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Want, Honest, Lawyer

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• I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Train Wrecks, People

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• One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Self, Challenges, Definitions

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• And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."

  Christopher Parkening

  Beautiful, Father, Moving

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• Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

  Keith Richards

  Thinking, Age, Certain

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• Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted to be an astronaut. Combined with my love for Navy history and World War II flight ops, and unsatisfying degrees in college and law school, I joined the Navy and became a naval aviator.

  Pete Olson

  War, Moving, Home

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• I love my country, and the mental and physical demands of the Navy SEALs was what I had been training for my whole life growing up in Montana. There's a reason Montana produces more SEALs than any other state. As a collegiate athlete, I enjoyed the mental and physical challenges Division I football presented. When a recruiter first told me about the Navy SEALs, I knew it was the right fit.

  Ryan Zinke

  Football, Country, Athlete

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.

  Willie Morris

  Mother, Emotional, Agreement

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• Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'

  Priscilla Ahn

  Husband, Mean, Thinking

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• Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

  Priscilla Ahn

  School, Kids, Trying

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• What a waste of an education Rick Santorum is! ... Let's just pray that none of his home-schooled kids grow up to be an airline pilot, okay? That's all I'm asking. Please dear God, do not let any of these home-schooled kids grow up to be a surgeon, an airline pilot, or a nurse. Or somebody that's in charge of my trans-vaginal mandatory ultrasound. Seriously, no science-y things for them, you know, just religion, let them be all preachers or something.

  Randi Rhodes

  Kids, Home, Ultrasounds

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• I think that's what growing up is all about. It's about taking on new responsibilities and learning what you can handle, and learning what you can't.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Responsibility, Thinking, Handle

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• People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones.

  Leelee Sobieski

  People, Nerd, Realizing

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