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“Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.”

Next Growing Up Growing Generations Mom Dad Band My Family My Dad My Favorite My Mom Uncles Next Generation Mom And Dad Favorite Bands

Author:Jacob Latimore

“When I was a kid, they'd say, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" kids would go Wonder Woman, an astronaut. Do you know what I always said? World domination - so we're on our way.”

Knows World Way Want Said Kids Grows Wonder Growing Up Do You Know Domination Astronaut Wonder Woman World Domination

Author:Terri Irwin

“There's a lot of actors I think that appear so much more together as the characters they portray as opposed to the actual people, so I know I've said this before: Hollywood's not a place where you're rewarded for growing up.”

People Thinking Knows Said Character Together Actors Growing Up Growing Hollywood

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit.”

Ifs Way Firsts Given Growing Up Growing Needed Notes Bass Choir Tenors

Author:Josh Young

“My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson... and Placido Domingo.”

Growing Up Growing

Author:Josh Young

“I do have issues with the fact that music is so accessible nowadays. When I was growing up, we had to find our music; we had to fight for it. But hey, you live in the age that you're born in, and you get on with it.”

Facts Age Fighting Born Growing Up Issues Growing Music Is Hey Hey You

Author:Andrew Loog Oldham

“You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it.”

Knows Mind Watches Growing Up Growing Pressure

Author:Tupac Shakur

“From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.”

Children Grows Growing Up

Author:Lauryn Hill

“I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.”

Thinking Firsts Shows Motivation Passion Grows Challenges Space Growing Up Path Design Tvs Being Famous Small Spaces Decorators Redesign

Author:Nate Berkus

“I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.”

Ifs Knows Want Persons Would Be Growing Up Growing Conversation Come Up Offended

Author:Nate Berkus

“Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Mind Kind Country Reality Guy Growing Up Growing Crazy Dad My Dad Average Screens Arguing Be Kind Factories Just Being Ohio

Author:Roger Ailes

“All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.”

Ifs Children Grows Growing Up Trauma Deceived

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“I watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.”

People Thinking Knows Country Shows Eye Young Watches Know How Growing Up Growing News Everyday Musical Reports Shock

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“You dream that you want to be a monster maker when you grow up, and that's what happened. I refused to take no for an answer. I just was a very driven kid, who's now a very driven semi-adult.”

Want Dream Kids Grows Answers Growing Up Happened Adults Driven Monsters Makers

Author:Howard Berger

“The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.”

People Kind Certain Interesting Growing Up Growing Generations One Thing Becoming Adults Interesting Things Our Generation Becoming An Adult

Author:Paul McCartney

“I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we our given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more. Sometimes it doesn't, and we just continue these cycles.”

Thinking Children Ideas Sometimes Mother Father Given Grows Growing Up Our Society Cycles Questioning Adolescence Mother And Father

Author:Alice Englert

“Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.”

Knows Film Grows Growing Up Television Strange Film And Television

Author:Patrick J. Adams

“I didn't grow up speaking Spanish, and the interesting thing was, we would watch these novelas and you didn't have to speak Spanish to understand what was going on.”

Speak Grows Interesting Watches Growing Up Interesting Things Speaking Spanish

Author:Eva Longoria

“Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up.”

Grows Growing Up Figures

Author:Kay Panabaker

“I've always just loved drawing and loved cartoons. Growing up, I loved Disney films, I loved The Simpsons, and I was a big fan of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes and the way that they would have weird fantasy and then down-to-earth funny character comedy.”

Way Character Bigs Earth Film Fantasy Growing Up Comedy Growing Fans Drawing Comic Cartoon Down To Earth Hobbes Comic Strips Funny Character Disney Film

Author:Alex Hirsch

“I feel like the best kids shows aren't just for kids. The best kids shows have something in it for everyone. As you grow up, you're increasingly proud to be a fan of the show, rather than getting to an age where you suddenly become embarrassed that you ever liked it because it's only for seven-year-olds.”

Feels Years Shows Kids Age Grows Growing Up Fans Proud Seven Embarrassed Seven Years

Author:Alex Hirsch

“I was very, very into animation when I was growing up. The Simpsons is still my favorite show. I have a really strong connection to it.”

Stills Shows Strong Growing Up Growing Connections My Favorite Animation Strong Connection

Author:Ben Schwartz

“All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.”

Way Needs Stills Wanted Pain Parent Term Growing Up Too Much Growing Worst Realising Need You

Author:John Lennon

“When I was a kid, I felt like I could do anything and play anything. I just felt super-confident. And then, once I started to play music professionally, maybe it's from being from a small town, but you grow up and then you're suddenly a big fish in a small pond, and I realized that there were a billion other drummers out there that could play as good as you or better, and everybody wants that job.”

Want Play Bigs Kids Jobs Grows Felt Growing Up Towns Fishes Billions I Realized Small Town Drummer Ponds Big Fish

Author:Patty Schemel

“When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't tell you is that you're also going to be four or five different people along the way.”

People Way Different Grows Careers Growing Up Five Four Lifetime These Days Different Peoples

Book:Miss Wyoming

Source: Miss Wyoming

“Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy”

Doe Easy Growing Up Growing Blame Faults Farms Dairy

Author:Mike Johanns

“As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.”

Grows Growing Up Lessons Treats Hopefully Mature Love And Relationship

Author:Taylor Swift

“You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.”

“I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.”

Knows Bigs Growing Up Comedy Growing My Friends Comedian Nerd

Author:Demetri Martin

“Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.”

Growing Up Growing Danger Oppression Village Fewer Small Villages

Author:Luke Treadaway

“...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.”

Long Next Grows Growing Up Doors Strange Towns Peculiar Small Town Unlikely Commonplace

Author:John Irving

“I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else.”

Children Wanted Grows Growing Up Married Daughter My Daughter Divorced

Author:Cher

“The Beatles meant everything to me growing up, and John was part of that. I loved Lennon's persona. He knew who he was and he knew what he represented to a worldwide public... I think he incited and inspired a whole group of youth to speak out and say what they felt.”

Thinking Whole Speak Felt Growing Up Growing Groups Youth Inspired Persona Speaks Out Lennon

Author:John Travolta

“Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.”

Children Important Parent Growth Growing Up Growing Childhood Development Connections My Children

Author:Ziggy Marley

“And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.”

Ifs May Children Matter Care Grows My Own Growing Up Unhappy

Book:Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated

Source: Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated

“But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.”

World Has Beens Country Might Growing Up Growing Dancer Might Have Been Another World Another Life

Author:Hugh Jackman

“When were you born, who are your parents, where did you grow up? None of us earns these things. These things were given to us. So when we strip away all of our luck and our privilege, and we consider where we'd be without them, it becomes much easier to see someone who's poor and say, "That could be me." And that's empathy.”

Given Grows Parent Born Poor Growing Up Easier Empathy Luck Privilege

Author:Melinda Gates

“When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.”

Shows Growing Up Growing Broadway

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.”

Parent Growing Up Growing Dad Involved My Dad Various Parenthood Volunteer Controversial Planned Parenthood

Author:Bill Gates

“My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.”

Ifs Real Next Father Growing Up Growing Lessons Pairs Expenses Spares Next Day Idealist Saxophone Nike

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.”

Wells Children Sometimes Grows Realizing Growing Up Security Broken Fragile Thread

Book:Simply Magic

Source: Simply Magic

“I understand why some women/girls/ladies don't want to be women-identified 'cuz it totally complicates your band identity and no one seems to pay much attention to the music or what you're doing. We have chosen to be girl-identified (although Billy isn't a girl!), because we want to encourage other women/girls to play music. When I was growing up, I found it discouraging to have all these women in bands not wanting to address the issue of gender...we're interested in what women are doing.”

Want Play Seems Girl Found Pay Attention Growing Up Issues Growing Identity Band Gender Chosen Addresses Discouraging Cuz

Author:Tobi Vail

“I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.”

Giving Wanted Grows Growing Up Mississippi Delta Mississippi Delta

Author:Charley Pride

“Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.”

Song Force Growing Up Growing Radio Pops Boat Germany Coast Classical Music Pirate Pop Song Pirate Radio

Author:Michael Caine

“The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.”

“I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.”

Way Growing Up Growing My Friends Treats Golf Tournaments Golf Tournaments

Author:Jamie Farr

“It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.”

Remember Easy Growing Up Focus Growing Products Industry Computer Standards Heavy Hated Ems Ibm Great Sales Mainframe

Author:Bill Gates

“I have a sort of sisterly feeling toward him [Ben Affleck]. I want him to do well and grow up and be a happy person and a fully realized man.”

Men Want Wells Persons Feelings Grows Growing Up Want Him Happy Person Sisterly

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.”

Secret Growing Up Growing Groups My Family

Author:Dennis Miller

“Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?”

Men America Grows Black White Poor Growing Up Rich

Author:Red Buttons

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