Growing Up Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part of the city. Football players didn't make close to the money they make today and most took jobs in the off-season. Some were mechanics, others worked at furniture stores, and you could find them drinking at a neighborhood watering hole.

  Barry Levinson

  Football, Jobs, Team

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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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• 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 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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• When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"

  Cate Marvin

  Father, Hate, Phrases

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I always loved science and math growing up. I was born in Iran; I grew up there and then came to the United States when I was about 16 years old. And I thought that this was my opportunity to get involved with something really cool and great.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Math, Opportunity, Iran

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.

  Flemming Rose

  People, Being Different, Listening

  Source: theundercurrent.org

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• When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

  Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

  Leadership, Christian, Children

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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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• Nobody thought that I was going to make it to the NBA. I only had a couple of believers growing up.

  Dwight Howard

  Couple, Nba, Believer

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake City, Utah, we were taught - and we are still led to believe - that the most important value is obedience. But that obedience in the name of religion or patriotism ultimately takes our souls. So I think it's this larger issue of what is acceptable and what is not; where do we maintain obedience and law and where do we engage in civil disobedience - where we can cross the line physically and metaphorically and say, "No, this is no longer appropriate behavior."

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Thinking, Utah

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• For me, growing up I watched Michael Jordan win all those championships, and I dreamed of being in that same spot one day. So to actually be here, and have one under my belt is an amazing feeling.

  Mario Chalmers

  Winning, Feelings, One Day

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• Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it.

  Mike Myers

  People, Training, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• As a kid I was into horror. I loved horror. Horror was huge. I was always into horror. Goosebumps for me was massive growing up. Horror for me was always a big thing.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Kids, Horror, Goosebumps

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I don't have formal training at all, but I did grow up around design. My parents both flipped homes. A typical weekend for us was walking through model home units. I loved walking through interesting floor plans and seeing different design aesthetics.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Home, Weekend, Interesting

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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