Jonathan Tropper Quotes
Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
Quotes to Explore
-
My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
-
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
-
I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
-
Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
-
I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
-
I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
-
Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
-
When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
-
I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.
-
There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
-
I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.
-
When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
-
When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
-
Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
-
Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'
-
As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
-
Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.
-
Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.
-
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
-
Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
-
Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
-
There's a book inside you. There's a library inside me.
-
Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
