Grew Up Quotes
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I grew up with the English language but not with the culture behind it. I was always outside that and deeply rooted in my own.
Attia Hosain
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When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said that I either wanted to be a philosopher or a clown, and I understood then, I think, that much depended on whether or not I found the world worth philosophizing about, and what the price of seriousness might be.
Judith Butler
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I grew up with communism, and if you live through communism you don't love it.
Eugene Shvidler
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There are some people who love being a something, but I also got the gist in the 60's when I grew up that you could be, in the art scene, very diverse.
Charlemagne Palestine
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I grew up in Plano, Texas.
Hunter Parrish
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I love the fact I grew up wanting a brother and now I have four.
Zayn Malik
One Direction
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I've always played acoustically - it's how I learned. I grew up listening to Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Dylan and what have you.
Lee Ranaldo
Sonic Youth
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I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.
Eva Longoria
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Broad access to opportunity is the key to a truly equitable America. No matter who you are or where you grew up, Black Faces in White Places provides a blueprint to seizing opportunities at hand - and expanding opportunity for your entire community.
Angela Glover Blackwell
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I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.
John Tesh
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I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.
Ralph Stanley
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My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.
Ezra Koenig
