Growing Quotes
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I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.
Jami Attenberg
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Growing up in Singapore, I wasn't allowed to visit China. So when I was finally able to go there after the country began opening up to tourism in the 1990s, I found it to be utterly astounding.
Kevin Kwan
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My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.
Adrianne Palicki
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I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.
Danny K. Davis
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I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.
Lisa Graff
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In the simplest terms, a fast-growing company can't keep growing at the same fast rate forever. It eventually has to slow down.
Om Malik
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As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it.
Elizabeth Diller
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I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'
Rickie Lee Jones
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Growing up in a cold place, in Southern Ontario, Woolrich was a brand of choice for us because it was always warm and comfortable. The parka with the fur on it was standard fare for us. It's extraordinary that they have kept up with the times. Beyond the parka, they have changed, and they have some pretty hip, cool items which I wear.
Douglas Kirkland
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Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.
Jessie Mueller
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You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.
Geoff Davis
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I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.
Kelly Olynyk
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Growing up and seeing Shawn Johnson, for her to call me on the phone, I think my inner child was freaking out!
Laurie Hernandez
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I'd never really considered film. If I'd thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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I think I've grown up in a mixed environment, and maybe a lot of the time I haven't really belonged anywhere in the way I've dreamt of belonging to, you know, living on the street and playing to all the kids on the street, growing up together. I suppose 'Raw Like Sushi' was a place where all of those things could come together.
Neneh Cherry
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I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.
Jim Gaffigan
