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		Most of our future attempts to build large, growing Artificial Intelligences will be subject to all sorts of mental disorders.
	
	  Marvin Minsky Marvin Minsky
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		Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
	
	  Damon Galgut Damon Galgut
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		When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.
	
	  Jack Antonoff
			
			
				Fun. Jack Antonoff
			
			
				Fun.
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		When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.
	
	  Parvesh Cheena Parvesh Cheena
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		I have a generally optimistic temperament and am thrilled by what I see as a rapidly growing food movement, especially among young people who care about how food is produced and what it does to their health and the environment.
	
	  Marion Nestle Marion Nestle
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		I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
	
	  R. Kelly R. Kelly
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		I am very bullish and I have been bullish on India for a very long time, and I see our own business growing very substantially.
	
	  John L. Flannery John L. Flannery
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		We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics.
	
	  John Lithgow John Lithgow
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		Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
	
	  Garrett Hedlund Garrett Hedlund
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		I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up. 'Vogue,' what is that?'
	
	  Christian Louboutin Christian Louboutin
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		If you had asked me what I wanted when I was 12 years old, I probably would have said, 'To marry a plastic surgeon.' You can hardly blame me: I was growing up in Miami.
	
	  Pamela Druckerman Pamela Druckerman
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		I am honored to join the Under Armour Board, and look forward to seeing how a founder and CEO operates a dynamic and fast-growing company known for innovation and its competitive edge.
	
	  Karen Katz Karen Katz
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		I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.
	
	  Finn Wittrock Finn Wittrock
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		Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
	
	  Lara Flynn Boyle Lara Flynn Boyle
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		But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
	
	  Anna Neagle Anna Neagle
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		I grew up a huge jock, a lot of basketball and football. We had a pond in my back yard growing up, and we played a lot of hockey, too. I loved to score goals.
	
	  Andy Grammer Andy Grammer
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		The one thing that did stand out in my memory was the fact that he had a well documented association with Heroin. Growing up with a somewhat myopic view of the world, I could not understand how it was that people could put a drug user on such a high pedestal (If you will pardon the pun).
	
	  Chet Baker Chet Baker
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		The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.
	
	  Vandana Shiva Vandana Shiva
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		When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.
	
	  Ha-Joon Chang Ha-Joon Chang
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		Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
	
	  Jack Bruce
			
			
				Cream Jack Bruce
			
			
				Cream
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		Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
	
	  Rahul Dravid Rahul Dravid
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		When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
	
	  Tamron Hall Tamron Hall