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My slice of the millennial generation, as we grew up, became - to the dismay of the GOP - a bloc of fairly consistently Democratic voters.

Kristen Soltis Anderson

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• One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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• I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

  

  Jackson Browne
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• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
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• My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

  

  Harland Williams
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• I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
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• I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
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• I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

  

  Kate Burton
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• The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• The batsman does not always need to create big hits. He can hit a boundary, then pick up some singles and still gets nine runs. To avoid that, I need to plan in a way where he must look to hit wherever there is a fielder. That is what is called 'bowling to the field.'

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

  

  Damien Rice
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• Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

  

  Laura Innes
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• My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

  

  Katarina Witt
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• Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

  

  Action Bronson
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• I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.

  

  Kate Williams
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• I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.

  

  Zoe Kazan
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• It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
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• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• I'm not fighting with myself.

  

  Marat Safin
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• I'm not arguing, incidentally, for a confusion of art and architecture, a fashion now, but for a coherent relationship. Therefore, within the capacity of one person or of a small group, the relationship of all visible things should be considered.

  

  Donald Judd
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• My slice of the millennial generation, as we grew up, became - to the dismay of the GOP - a bloc of fairly consistently Democratic voters.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
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