Growing Quotes
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
Zaha Hadid
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
Harbhajan Singh
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Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.
Jack Falahee
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One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.
Geoff Dyer
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
Mahmoud Darwish
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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
Aristotle
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Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
Vic Fuentes
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
Young Jeezy
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I started watching 'Daria' when I was in college because I didn't have cable growing up. It's such a smart show with a different type of female character.
Phoebe Robinson
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.
Lara Jean Chorostecki
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I really loved making my mom laugh, and I knew that she thought that I was funny. It was really valuable, in my home growing up, to be able to have a chat and participate in a conversation and be funny. Whatever I could do to make my mom laugh could either get me out of trouble or just get me more attention or get me respect in the house.
Katherine Ryan
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
Park Chan-wook
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
Wang Jianlin
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I'm a big Aqua fan. 'Barbie Girl' was a big deal growing up.
Allison Williams
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Ed Koch
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Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.
H. L. Mencken
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
Landon Donovan
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
Kate Burton
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
Dacre Montgomery
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
Iman
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Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.
Bruce Anthony Johannesson
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I do feel like plus-size fashion is changing, but it's slowly changing. It's not growing as fast as we would all like.
Ashley Nell Tipton
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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
William Butler Yeats