Young Age Quotes - Page 17

• There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

  Lisa Lucas

  Book, Reading, House

  "A Lifelong Lover of Books Breaks Ground Atop the Literary World". Interview with Hope Wabuke, www.theroot.com. February 27, 2016.

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• I have always championed the concept of administrators of color. My mother worked in advertising, and growing up, I saw my mother's community of women working behind the scenes. I had the opportunity from a young age to know that I could do this work.

  Lisa Lucas

  Mother, Growing Up, Opportunity

  "A Lifelong Lover of Books Breaks Ground Atop the Literary World". Interview with Hope Wabuke, www.theroot.com. February 27, 2016.

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• I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

  Kate Bush

  Brother, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• It's just this long overdue. These people [ex-Nazi brought to trial] should be grateful to the apathy that exists there that prevented them from being brought to trial earlier. All of the people that they committed crimes against had their lives snuffed out, some of them at very young ages. Some of them never had a chance to get married and have children.

  Marvin Hier

  Children, Grateful, Long

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Gossip, Age, Mouths

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• For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

  Jon Fishman

  Years, Age, Young

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• I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

  Wyclef Jean

  Age, Young

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• There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Art, Children, Age

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• Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or not you are equipped-by your parents, by your genetics, by your education-to survive and deal with them.

  Jenna Jameson

  Parent, Age, Matter

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• From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

  Justin Sane

  Ideas, Age, Trying

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• A true Grandmaster is a person who starts the arts at a very young age and continues it until their body will no longer allows it. Then they still contribute mentally to the art.

  Choi Hong Hi

  Art, Age, Body

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• Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.

  Priscilla Presley

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in this fantasy world. That's why I started writing songs and stories from a very young age. I'd much rather walk around anonymously cooking up tales than face the people that I have known forever.

  Jenny Lewis

  Song, Real, Writing

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• I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing myself. Letting myself fly free. The more experience I have, the more I get to know myself.

  Amanda McKerrow

  Dance, Mean, Voice

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• There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

  Itzhak Perlman

  People, Thank God, Age

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• I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

  Johnny Ramone

  People, Age, World

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• Children have always brought a tremendous amount of joy to me and I feel that if you can catch them at a young age you can really change a life. There are a lot of studies that show that one act of kindness to these children has a 40% chance of making that child have a completely different outcome in their life. What you hope is that you can get a kid to believe in something and to believe in themselves.

  Walter Payton

  Children, Kindness, Believe

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• The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very young age.

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Children, Age, World

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• People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age. Look at the drive that people have to get sex - to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic

  Kanye West

  Girl, Sex, Thinking

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• If you love the things you do, you don’t age, you always remain young. Age is for the calendar.

  Sol Hurok

  Age, Calendars, Young

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• What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age.

  Tim Daly

  Kids, Wife, Age

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

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• In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age, particularly wearing the 'heavy' shirt of one of the world's great clubs.

  Fabio Capello

  Player, Personality, Age

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• My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.

  Valorie Curry

  Mother, College, Class

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• When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

  Reese Hoffa

  Mom, People, Age

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• The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

  William Jackson

  Writing, School, Skills

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