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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

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• I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
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  • Different
  • Know

• But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Trying

• I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Up
  • Age
  • Acting

• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Tree

• In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Different
  • Teenager
  • Very

• Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Up
  • Good
  • Remember

• I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Growing
  • Like
  • Glamour

• I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Production

• I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Idea

• My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Work
  • Different
  • Important

• Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.

  

  Ralph Baer
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  • Time
  • Art

• I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.

  

  J. R. Smith
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  • Game
  • Always

• There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• Decisions are made by those who show up.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Show
  • Decisions

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.

  

  Elizabeth George
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Experience

• How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'

  

  Ali Smith
  • Life
  • World
  • War

• I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Nice
  • Always
  • Feel

• Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • True
  • Gossip

• I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

  

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