Grow Up Quotes
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	I grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid's dream.   
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	I grew up in the early '70s in New England.   
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	I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.   
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	Many neglected and abused children grow up to be adults who are afraid to take risks of striking out on their own. Many will remain dependent on their abusive parents and unable to separate from them. Others leave their abusive parents only to attach themselves to a partner who is controlling.   
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	If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.   
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	Taking a lifetime to grow up.   
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	Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little.   
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	You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely to find themselves standing in the kitchen with all these domestic skills and no outlet for them, no way to earn a living... At that point your kids are not thanking you for having made the hand-pureed baby food and for giving them homemade cookies. They don't feel you've done them a big favor; they say, "Why didn't she ever grow up and take responsibility for her own life?"   
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	I think you grow up on every shoot you do. You do grow up because you're away from home, you're not with all of your friends constantly and in that environment you have to be grown up. You're working with adults and you're sort of expected to be older and that's how I like to put myself across. I don't want to come across as constantly messing about.   
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	You can take the boy out of Philly but not the Philly out of the boy. It shapes my world view. It was a great place to grow up.   
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	I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.   
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	When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.   
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	When you grow up in life and you're poor, and because you're an athlete or you got rich overnight in music, unless you have access to financial advice or for the transition or matriculation of that process, then of course, you're going to go broke.   
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	Michael is a kid, sort of, like, I mean, Michael is a kid himself; he's never really grown up.   
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	It's what happens when you've been in the game a long time. We had to grow up in a very public way.   
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	I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.   
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	I did grow up watching Buck Rogers and Buck Rogers didn't stop at Mars. In my lifetime, I will be incredibly disappointed if we have not at least reached Mars.   
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	I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.   
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	Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city.   
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	I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live."   
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	My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.   
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	When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life. Have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life.   
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	Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.   
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	Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mahomed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					