Growing Quotes

• I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Comedy

• When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • Up
  • Women
  • Family

• I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Brain
  • Drug
  • Heard

• It's impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Legacy

• My focus will be a strong and growing economy - so everyone who wants a job can find one.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Focus

• I have never been a 'hair person.' Growing up, my mom and my sister, who loved to get their hair done, would always give me a hard time about not getting mine done.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

  

  Jim Nussle
  • Growing

• Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.

  

  Jeff Garcia
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Together

• Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.

  

  Cindy Williams
  • Up
  • Country
  • Imagination

• I wasn't the biggest hip-hop fan, because I had to listen to whatever my parents listened to, so growing up, it was a lot of Dolly Parton, Elvis, and Whitney Houston. When they finally put a TV in my room and I got to listen to MTV Jams I was like: 'Here I am!'

  

  Karen Civil
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• In 'When They Call You a Terrorist,' I reflect on my time growing up in Van Nuys, California, surrounded by my devoted family and supportive friends, weaving our experiences into the larger picture of how predominantly marginalized neighborhoods are under constant systemic attack.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.

  

  Kevin Rollins
  • People
  • Business
  • Growing

• I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Up
  • Science
  • Growing

• My aunt Marcia Cope-Hart was in 'Phantom Of the Opera' in San Francisco for quite a few years when I was growing up, so we would go into the city a lot to see her.

  

  James Snyder
  • Up
  • City
  • Aunt

• Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits.

  

  Edward Herrmann
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• Family is very important to me. People often ask me how I managed to stay grounded and sane, having started as a child star and growing up in the industry, and really, it's God. But it's also my family and God in my family.

  

  Kim Fields
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• You have a growing network and the computers need to be advanced. Most counties have a network administrator and staff.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Computers
  • Network
  • Administrator

• I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Up
  • Different
  • Fun

• It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.

  

  Nell Newman
  • Growing
  • Food

• One consequence of Russia's klepto-capitalist model is the growing appeal of government jobs, with their lucrative opportunities for payoffs.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • Growing
  • Model

• For the majority of my career, I've been surprised that I've been able to sustain any kind of a plan. I was always happy to have the job, and I was having a good time. I was growing. But I don't feel all that strongly about my work.

  

  Georg Stanford Brown
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Growing
  • Violence

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