Growing Up Quotes
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Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
Christina Aguilera
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From me growing up with a large family and everybody singing around the Christmas tree, it was a wonderful, wonderful upbringing.
Engelbert Humperdinck
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I watched a lot of comedy growing up.
Wanda Sykes
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While I was growing up, all the boys used to be my buddies. I never got that special kind of attention from them, and I was the tomboy around. Although I've become an actress today, I still have those traits.
Esha Gupta
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
Iman
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
J. Cole
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In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.
Salman Rushdie
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Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
Kevin Spacey
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I was a little rebellious growing up.
Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
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Growing up, my favorite pass-rusher was Julius Peppers. He was just a beast.
Malik Jackson
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I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
Nas
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I spent two of my checks in telemarketing when I was 18 years old on my first pair of Gucci slippers, and this was before H&M and Zara. You couldn't just find cool stuff growing up, and for me, I care about cool stuff, it means a lot to me and people like me.
Kanye West
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They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.
Zadie Smith
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Growing up, I never was a big follower of the Dodgers.
Andre Ethier
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Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.
Ted Dekker
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It was good growing up in a small town. The whole town would shut down on Friday, 5 o'clock. If I'd been a bank robber or wanted to ransack a house, there wasn't nobody in town. The cops would go, too. They'd lead the bus to wherever, to Plano or Cooper or Commerce, wherever we was playing. It was something for a town to rally around, whether we had a winning season or a losing season. It was a place to go gossip, a place to go see friends.
Walt Garrison
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I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
Rachel Kushner
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I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.
Halsey
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When I was growing up, I would listen to a different album almost every night. I would do the full album experience before I went to bed and that's how I would discover a lot of music. I would kind of go into another world with my headphones on.
Mark Stoermer The Killers
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It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird.
Olly Murs
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Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
Ian Botham
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I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.
Karin Slaughter
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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
Zadie Smith
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When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.
Gautama Buddha