Young Age Quotes - Page 11

• The sport is definitely growing, and has become much more competitive. When I started, you were either a former swimmer or runner who took up triathlons. Now, you have a generation of triathletes coming up that started competing at a young age - these are the people that will change the game.

  Timothy O'Donnell

  Sports, Games, People

  "Triathlon Gear". Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com.

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• I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Baby, Dad, Children

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• It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.

  Bradford Cox

  Cynical, Age, Groups

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer. I'm saying that and someone's going to be born tomorrow who decides to do that and I'm going to have my foot in my mouth.

  Joan Chen

  Order, Feet, Dancer

  Source: collider.com

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• Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.

  Chris Froome

  Country, Growing Up, Real

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• I have a real no-nonsense dad who taught me how to be resilient at a very young age.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Dad, Real, Age

  "INTERVIEW: Streetcar Star Nicole Ari Parker and Boris Kodjoe Are a Couple of Smart Actors". Interview with Brian Scott Lipton, www.theatermania.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I was told from a very young age that I wasn't gonna be anything. That I wasn't gonna amount to a single thing.

  Shaun White

  Age, Young, Amount

  "Thirty Seconds To Mars' 'City Of Angels' Vid: Kanye, Lindsay, More Show Love To L.A." by Brenna Ehrlich, www.mtv.com. October 29, 2013.

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• I screwed up at a young age with my parents. They were very religious and they didn't really understand music. They didn't really listen to music. I went through a series of battles with them about why I loved music.

  Brent Smith

  Religious, Parent, Age

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• My dad taught me to play the guitar. We grew up with country music. We had every Willie Nelson record (laughs). I was saved at a young age and had a great desire to follow God. I was really focused on that through my whole life, even as a kid and through high school.

  Chris Tomlin

  Country, Dad, School

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• I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as a child, I thought I was Judy Garland. And when I started out, I was a little nuts. I thought I was a classic, legendary superstar when only 10 people knew who I was. I feel in some ways that my confidence is misinterpreted as arrogance, which is understandable. But I've also always thought that false modesty is evil.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Children, Nuts, Evil

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• Learning to code at a young age opened my eyes to the incredibly exciting world of technology and entrepreneurship. Our youth deserve the opportunity to learn the skills that will enable them to succeed in our connected world.

  Marc Benioff

  Eye, Technology, Opportunity

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• Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how to be a father before you even become a father, from a very young age. It's necessary to override what we're told in society a father should be, like if your son falls and scrapes his knee, you got to be tough. Baseball and all that are cool, but it's the tenderness and interactions that are really important. Boys are different; we have to impart that sensibility and that tenderness to them.

  Malik Yusef

  Baseball, Jobs, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My dad taught me at a very young age that I should work harder than everyone else: Be the first one in and the last one out.

  Mandana Dayani

  Dad, Hard Work, Age

  Source: money.cnn.com

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• Technology is a nerdy field. Thats why I called myself a geek. It requires a lot of training and encouragement at a very young age.

  Weili Dai

  Encouragement, Technology, Training

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• I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't.

  Sasha Grey

  Age, Young, Term

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• I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.

  Christopher Egan

  Creative, Community, Theatre

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• [At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Age, Pressure

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.74, Ballantine Books

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• I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.

  Ger Duany

  Challenges, Age, Young

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• I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress.

  Mary Harron

  Age, Ambitious, Six

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end up living a pretty rough life. At a young age, I just knew I wasn't going to give in because I didn't want to end up being one of those people in the neighborhood that didn't have anything and lived a hard life.

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  People, Giving, Age

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• I've always been interested in exploring the concept of child prodigies. When I was younger, I wrote a story about Mozart as a child and I just always loved this idea of young people who are able to take control of their lives and bring a whole lot of change at such a young age.

  Marie Lu

  Children, Ideas, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.

  Daniel Clowes

  Dream, Writing, Drawing

  "Clowes Encounter: An Interview With Daniel Clowes". www.motherjones.com. May 13, 2010.

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• My mom was very spiritual. We were a Catholic family. We read the Bible at a young age. I have two brothers and a sister. We're all very close. That was part of our childhood. But when I went to college and then got drafted and played in Anaheim, it was a life changer for me. I was exposed to so many things. I was out on my own for the first time.

  Matt Cullen

  Mom, Spiritual, Brother

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young age - was that I was tired of seeing wimpy Asian actors.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Tired, Age, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that everybody in life probably goes through obstacles at different times in life. I wouldn't really call them obstacles, I think that's just called growing up, and I think it's hard to be in the industry at such a young age

  Kirsten Dunst

  Growing Up, Thinking, Age

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