Growing Up Quotes - Page 9

• I don't think I was talking specifically about Steve Jobs. It was just a general philosophy about one person grows up and he's kind of managing companies and every day he's working making sure this is in place and that's in place.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Philosophy, Thinking

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• It's like losing a son because I loved Michael and Michael loved me. But you know, as when people grow up and they make their own decisions and they move forward, there's a distance, and I think that Michael in some cases might have gone too far with some of the things he was doing.

  Berry Gordy

  Distance, Moving, Son

  "Motown's Gordy On Michael Jackson". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 27, 2009.

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• I didn't know growing up what I wanted to do. I finally settled on broadcast journalism as a way to satisfy the urge to perform and also do something important, which is to give people in a democracy information to make good decisions.

  Mort Crim

  People, Giving, Decision

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.

  Ice T

  Son, Clothes, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.

  Terry Gross

  Kids, Names, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.

  Phil Robertson

  Nerd, Want, Lasts

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• People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

  Jason Katims

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.

  Nathan Fillion

  Play, Tricks, Grows

  "Fictional character: Richard Castle". "Castle" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2009–2016.

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• One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another man, to show them what it looks like to do away with that boyhood stuff. As a result, they often move into adolescence and then adulthood looking like men but still speaking, reasoning, and behaving like boys.

  Dennis Rainey

  Father, Moving, Boys

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• I played football growing up in junior high and high school.

  Ryan Merriman

  Football, School, Juniors

  "Actor Ryan Merriman on his latest football film The 5th Quarter". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 2011.

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• Growing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

  Daniella Alonso

  Acting, Wanted, Industry

  "Daniella Alonso Leaves Her 'Caliente' Mark in Hollywood" by Mayara Guimaraes, www.foxnews.com. December 6, 2012.

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• I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.

  Michael Steger

  Generations, Culture, Firsts

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• We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Real, Eye, Thinking

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• I would love to do anything involving a good strong character, whether its in film, TV or theatre. My dream roles already been taken by Keira Knightley in Pride and Prejudice. Growing up, I really wanted to be Lizzie Bennett.

  Roxanne McKee

  Dream, Strong, Taken

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• Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

  Michael Angarano

  Kids, Cartoon, My Favorite

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• Im pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person.

  Kerry Condon

  Home, Thinking, Shy

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• Ive always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.

  Magda Apanowicz

  Moving, Character, Thinking

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• I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

  Magda Apanowicz

  Fun, School, Kids

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• Ive had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think Ive gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act.

  Kevin Corrigan

  Thinking, Idols, Idol Worship

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• I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

  Alan Ritchson

  Baseball, Book, Passion

  "Alan Ritchson Exclusive Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 19, 2010.

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• I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

  Alan Ritchson

  Book, Comic, Grows

  "Alan Ritchson Exclusive Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 19, 2010.

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• Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

  Monica Raymund

  School, Hair, Voice

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• I was a huge Radiohead fan growing up.

  Iwan Rheon

  Fans, Radiohead, Huge

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