Growing Up Quotes - Page 9

• Id never really considered film. If Id thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Light, Names, Film

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• I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Believe, Frustration

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• The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dream, Men, Miracle

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• I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.

  Charlize Theron

  Mother, Clothes, Evil

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

  Kevin Spacey

  Kids, Ideas, Television

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• I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond ourselves, otherwise we're just absorbed with the preoccupations that we invent.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Rama, Wonderful

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• In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick down a few of the remaining bigoted stereotypes. Through his undisputable class and dignity, Henry has made a deep-seated difference to race relations in this country. Racism will flounder whenever white children grow up with a black man as their hero. That so few comment on Henry's colour is a silent tribute to his impact.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Country

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• I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Want, Problem

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• This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

  Adam Sandler

  Brother, Children, Hero

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• There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

  Brandon Routh

  Towns, Small Town, Growing

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• I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

  Emmy Rossum

  Character, Stories, Grows

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• I come from a small county outside of Washington DC called PG County, and me, my mom, my brother, we moved so many different places growing up. And it felt like a box. It felt like there was no getting out.

  Kevin Durant

  Mom, Brother, Mvp

  "Behind the best moments of Kevin Durant’s MVP speech" by Jonathan Lehman, nypost.com. May 7, 2014.

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• You know what happens to guys? There's what I call the individual time of their career, and the team time of their career. This is the team time. You don't care about all the other stuff. You just want to live in one place, and watch your kids grow up and go to the same school. You say, 'Hey, maybe I'd better play well and be a good enough guy that they keep me.'

  Mike Babcock

  Team, School, Kids

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• I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

  David Guterson

  Trials, Literature, Want

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• Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family, so that meant that we had to kill and eat our animal friends. When you do that you are aware of the sacrifice that someone is making so that you may live. My mother always made sure we were thankful for those precious gifts.

  Roger Fouts

  Mother, Sacrifice, Animal

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• Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Sports, Mean

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• Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Character, Islands

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• I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.

  Will Smith

  Kids, Cameras, Goofy

  "Will Smith and Margot Robbie Talk FOCUS, SUICIDE SQUAD, and More". Press conference, collider.com. February 24, 2015.

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• What I do know is, I never plan on growing up inside.

  Jack Barakat

  Growing, Plans, Knows

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• I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

  Harrison Ford

  Responsibility, Thinking, Stills

  "Harrison Ford Talks ENDER’S GAME, Why It’s a Good Family Movie, the Evolution of Space Visual Effects Since STAR WARS, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 27, 2013.

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• When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh, she has a gift! They never thought of me as an entertainer when I was a young kid.

  Mindy Kaling

  Kids, Boston, Play

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.

  Lana Del Rey

  Lonely, Found Someone, Long

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

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• One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside all day.

  Jennifer Pharr Davis

  Playing Outside, Feelings, The End Of The Day

  "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• You can't not be into basketball and grow up in Chicago or live in L.A., because people are so fanatical about the teams. You know what's going on with the games even if you don't watch.

  Virginia Madsen

  Basketball, Team, Games

  "Virginia Madsen on smelling Christopher Walken, getting tax advice from Arnold Schwarzenegger, and more". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. July 19, 2013.

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• Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.

  Michael Douglas

  Kids, Cutting, Two

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2007.

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