Mia Love Quotes
So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.
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Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
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I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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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.
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I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.
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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.
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Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
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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.'
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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.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.
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I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
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Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.
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Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.
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Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.
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Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.
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Growing up in Miami, being Cuban is integrated into our culture. When we greet anyone, we give them a kiss on the cheek.
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I didn't know any poets growing up in Kansas.
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If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.
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I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.
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The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.
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I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.
