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		The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				M. Scott Peck
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Doc Rivers
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Growing up, I would say, when we were racing go-karts back in the day, it was always our uncle. We were always looking up to our uncle. I mean, he won the Daytona 500, he's a very well-respected man, and we've always looked up to that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Amber Cope
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Karrine Steffans
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm the youngest of four siblings and the baby of the family. My family just treated me like anyone else growing up. They taught me that everyone has a special and unique trait about them, and that mine is that I have a girl brain and a boy body.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jazz Jennings
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Christian Bale
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Doerr
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jeff Bridges
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jim Hodges
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on television and went out and bought an electric guitar.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Cassidy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jessie Mueller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Louis C. K.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gabourey Sidibe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				R. C. Sproul
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Growing up, everybody told me I was good. I was playing ping-pong with my father, and he'd say, 'That's a good shot,' but I'd mess up the next one, and I'd yell, 'Don't tell me that! I'll mess up! Just don't say anything!' You know, if someone says, 'You can't do that,' then I'm going to be, 'Yeah, you watch me.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Allison Janney
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dennis Quaid
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lurlene McDaniel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Though sporting a hideous mustache is in no way comparable to the physical pain and mental suffering men with these diseases endure, Movember still forces participants to challenge their manhood on a daily basis. Growing a moustache for men's cancer isn't as feel-good an activity as running a marathon for a cure.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Sax
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Growing up, I listened and was influenced by a lot of those around me. I have a big family, and my dad listened to '80s music, my mom listened to Motown, my brother listened to reggae, and my granddad was the one that got me into jazz and swing music.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ella Henderson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For a long time growing up, I thought that everything happens for a reason and it's kind of already written. But as I've grown and learned various things, I think that the most important moment is the one that you're in, and that's the only moment that matters, that you can really control. The future is unknown, and the past is history.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Christen Press
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Janelle Monae
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Caitlyn Jenner