Growing Quotes
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I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.
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I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.
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We have to think creatively about changes that need to be made in the workplace to accommodate the growing demands on the work force.
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It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.
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My first book, 'Fast Forward', was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the U.K. is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.
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Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.
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We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.
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I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.
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I love crosswords! Actually, when I was growing up, me and my girlfriends would collect them and see who finished them first!
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You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.
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As a kid growing up in Latrobe, PA, I could dream about being an Olympian like Jesse Owens or Johnny Weissmuller. I could also dream about being a great golfer like Bobby Jones or Byron Nelson. But the idea of being an Olympic golfer never occurred to me.
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I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.
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Growing up with my father's legacy, we never felt that we had to do anything, but we were always raised to think: What could be better than to explore the wonders of the world and share that with people? To try and make the world a better place. And I guess it stuck.
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One of the things that always disappointed me as a kid, growing up, was when you could tell the singer had a fancy for something different and turned the band into something else.
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I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.
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You've got to be a Lakers fan growing up in L.A. with all these championships.
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Growing up, my earliest memories are listening to Sinatra Christmas albums.
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It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U.S., quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.
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As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.
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Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.
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Growing up in the English countryside, I feel like I'm in a Jane Austen novel when I walk around. I just feel comfortable and confident in those surroundings.
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Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.
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For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
