Growing Quotes
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When I was growing up, our nation was partitioned: Blacks were segregated by law in the South and largely by custom in the North, though it, too, had segregation laws. Our best universities had quota systems. Many white communities had real estate covenants to keep nonwhites out.
Donna Brazile
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Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.
Emma Roberts
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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
Nan Goldin
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When I was growing up, I watched every sitcom imaginable.
Lauren Lapkus
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I would love to be an example to young LGBTQ kids everywhere. I remember growing up and feeling like nobody in the media accurately represented me, and when they did, it was always made to seem like a bad thing.
Brianna Hildebrand
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I read a lot of the 'Pern books' growing up - basically up through 'All the Weyrs of Pern,' maybe a couple after that. As far as formative dragon influences are concerned, she's probably one of the top ones; I know I read other fantasy novels that had them, but none particularly stick in mind.
Marie Brennan
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Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated frontier. I have aunts and uncles and grandparents that experienced the 'whites only' and segregated schools.
Elijah Kelley
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And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.
George Carey
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois
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I went to a very small Catholic school. It wasn't an easy place to be growing up gay.
John Cameron Mitchell
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The reality is, the movies that were most impactful to me growing up, when I decided I wanted to make movies, I was going to see Woody Allen double features with my brother, back when they had double features.
Doug Liman
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I certainly did not know what the word 'socialism' meant growing up, because I was brought up in a very nonpolitical family. My brother was somewhat active, but my parents were not.
Bernie Sanders
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I love the farm, I love growing stuff.
Bill Kreutzmann
Grateful Dead
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When you are constantly around other professionals, you end up learning and growing.
Krystle D'Souza
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Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.
Kelsea Ballerini
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Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.
Anna Deavere Smith
