Growing Quotes - Page 27

• Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

  Marilyn Manson

  Growing Up, Taken, Devil

  "A Dangerous Man? Marilyn Manson Says He’s Become His Own Nightmares". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. November 17, 2000.

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• Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.

  Elliott Yamin

  Growing Up, Inspire, Singing

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

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• I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.

  Charlotte Arnold

  Growing Up, Kind, Modeling

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• Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

  Vagit Alekperov

  Gas, Consumption

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• When you're growing up, you want to feel part of something.

  Reese Hoffa

  Growing Up, Want, Feels

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• As a kid growing up in Southern California, I was a frequent visitor to the Disneyland and developed a deep love of the magic and wonder of Disney.

  Kidada Jones

  Growing Up, Kids, Deep Love

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• I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.

  Yunjin Kim

  New York, Growing Up, Events

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• I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.

  Faith Prince

  Growing Up, Laughing, Killers

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• I was always very physical, growing up, and did sports. I like to get out and do different things, and walk in different shoes. I like change. I like challenge.

  Emily Bett Rickards

  Sports, Growing Up, Shoes

  "Emily Bett Rickards Talks ARROW, Becoming a Series Regular, Creating Her Character’s Backstory, Felicity’s Involvement Going Forward, Fandom and Romance". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 24, 2013.

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• I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.

  Kevin P. Ryan

  People, Office, Feelings

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• I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

  Janet Jackson

  Growing Up, Independent, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

  Bailey Chase

  Mom, Growing Up, Home

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• Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

  August Strindberg

  Nice, Interesting, Aging

  August Strindberg (1962). “Plays”

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• Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.

  Chad Hurley

  Real, Impact, Errors

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• Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

  Damian McGinty

  Growing Up, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

  Frank R. Stockton

  Over You, May, Green

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• The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Country, Japan, Asian

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• My first book, Fast Forward, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the UK is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Growing Up, Hate, Book

  "Lauren Greenfield: 'It's everything the British love to hate about Americans'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Country, Growing Up, Drama

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• I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing.

  Misty Copeland

  Hard Work, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• You always have to give back to the fans. I remember being a fan of television and film when I was growing up and if I would've had the opportunity to meet somebody that I watched on television, it would've made my day, it would've made my life.

  Jon Huertas

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

  Morgan Freeman

  Growing Up, Cowboy, Hot

  "Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

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• The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.

  John Travolta

  Growing Up, Boys, Erotic

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Growth, Seems, Conditions

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Self, Would Be

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.475, Princeton University Press

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