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“When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.”

Want Trying Hard Grows Poor Growing Up

Author:Dat Phan

“You're in a bar - grow up. You're drinking poison. You're trying to have sex unsafely with someone you don't know. Is secondhand smoke really the chiefest of your health concerns at this point?”

Knows Trying Sex Grows Growing Up Concern Drinking Bars Smoke Poison Smoking Drinking Poison Secondhand Smoke

Author:Greg Proops

“I talked about everything, man. I've always written material that everyone can laugh at. I talked about growing up. I did a lot of physical comedy. That was my thing. I was a physical comedian. I did anything and everything from running on a treadmill, I can paint a picture on stage of anything.”

Men I Can Running Laughing Growing Up Comedy Growing Written Stage Materials Paint Comedian Treadmills Anything And Everything Physical Comedy

Author:J. B. Smoove

“As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.”

Thinking World Looks Country Dream Young Night Space Boys Growing Up Growing Special Moon India Attraction Village Far Away

Author:Naveen Jain

“Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.”

Grows Family Growing Up Members Roof Criminal Mind

Author:Richard Bach

“Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.”

World Form Opportunity Chance Growing Up Growing Ready Needed Degrees India Prepared Changing The World Engineering Good Opportunity

Author:Naveen Jain

“There's a lot of particularly good things going on in my life at the moment. It's the fact that I get to be an ambassador for the concept of modernity. I can be creative and useful. And I don't have to grow up.”

I Can Moments Facts Grows Creative Growing Up Concepts Good Things Be Creative Modernity Ambassadors

Author:Matthew Healy

“I was a huge 'Bewitched' fan growing up.”

Growing Up Growing Fans Huge Bewitched

Author:Madchen Amick

“I used to breakdance, be a b-boy. I love hip-hop from back in the graffiti days, growing up listening to Michael Jackson. Loved it from birth. I know it all, from Afrika Bambaataa, the roots and the beginning. I came up in a good era.”

Knows Used Boys Growing Up Growing Listening Birth Roots Hip Hop Hips Eras Hops Graffiti Know It All

Author:DJ Khaled

“Growing up as a child actress, there was much I got to do and yet so much that I missed out on. Therefore, when I had kids, I made it a point to make sure that they could do anything and everything that they dreamed of. A great education was definitely right at top of my list!”

Children Made Kids Growing Up Growing Actresses Lists Made It Great Education Anything And Everything

Author:Kim Richards

“I'd like to start off by saying that every experience no matter what it is, good or bad, you'll learn from it. That's just life. But something I've done I've regretted is probably picking on my siblings growing up, because you appreciate them so much more as you grow older.”

Matter Done Grows Growing Up Growing Appreciate No Matter What Sibling My Siblings

Author:Olivia Culpo

“Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession -- a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.”

Want Wanted School Black Class Growing Up Study Middle Particular Mom Music Is Doctors Medicine Profession Lawyer Eras Middle Class Want Me Playing Music Black Family

Author:Don Alias

“I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.”

Play Used Stuff Growing Up Streets New York Brother Grew Grew Up My Brother Subway

Author:Don Alias

“One of my pleasantest memories as a kid growing up in New Orleans was how a bunch of us kids, playing, would suddenly hear sounds. It was like a phenomenon, like the Aurora Borealis -- maybe. The sounds of men playing would be so clear, but we wouldn't be sure where they were coming from. So we'd start trotting, start running-- 'It's this way! It's this way!' -- And sometimes, after running for a while, you'd find you'd be nowhere near that music. But that music could come on you any time like that. The city was full of the sounds of music.”

Men Way Sometimes Would Be Running Kids Sound Memories Cities Growing Up Clear Growing Bunch Phenomenon New Orleans Kids Growing Up Sound Of Music Aurora Kids Playing Trotting

Author:Danny Barker

“As I was a kid, I had a bunch of musicians, they always told me that I should listen to all styles of music and try to play all styles and be authentic at it, if I can, because you never know who's gonna call you. This was coming from fellow horn players who would get the call to play with different types of people. Since I was a kid, that was just something I was always interested in.”

People Ifs Knows Should Trying I Can Different Play Kids Growing Up Player Style Type Musician Fellows Bunch Horns

Author:Troy Andrews

“As soon as I was born, my mom said I was humming 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' or something like that, you know? It's in the family. And in that neighborhood [Treme, in New Orleans], I think everybody in the neighborhood has some type of musical influence, even if they don't play instruments or anything. It's the way they talk to you, the way they say your name - it's all musical.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Said Play Names Born Growing Up Influence Mom Type Instruments Musical Saint My Mom Neighborhood New Orleans Humming Musical Influence

Author:Troy Andrews

“Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same?”

People Looks Children Seems Able Grows Accepting Growing Up Normal My Children

Author:Nancy Burson

“We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about.”

Artist Parent Poor Struggle Growing Up Growing Ideals Photograph Desperate

Author:Justine Kurland

“When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies.... Now we have video, digital cameras, MP3s, and a million other ways to document ourselves. But the still photograph continues to hold a sense of mystery and awe to me.”

Way Stills Kids Millions Growing Up Growing Mystery Cameras Photograph Video Awe Digital Sixty Documents Kids Growing Up Digital Cameras Mp3

Author:Catherine Opie

“Get this in mind early: We never grow up.”

Mind Grows Growing Up

Author:Richard Bach

“My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.”

Firsts Growing Up Growing Seeing Pairs Pants Mama Just Live

Author:Dolly Parton

“I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.”

Wanted Growing Up Growing Sexy

Author:Dolly Parton

“I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn't very good-looking. But in his own way he'd always save the day.”

Way Growing Up Growing Very Good Looking Good Dolls Clumsy Grover

Author:Dave Grohl

“I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.”

Thinking Stills Growing Up Growing Example Hero Musician Musical Locals This Day

Author:Dave Grohl

“When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.”

Kids Growing Up Growing Rocks Punk Trusted Punk Rock

Author:Angelina Jolie

“The Comedy Store attracts all types of people, growing up I was able to meet them all.”

People Able Growing Up Comedy Growing Type Stores

Author:Pauly Shore

“I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.”

Young Grows Growing Up Staying Staying Young

Author:Hugh Hefner

“Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.”

Men Grows Growing Up Mom My Mom Household

Author:LeBron James

“I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.”

Growing Up Growing Fans Chicago Bulls Jordan

Author:LeBron James

“I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?”

Knows Mean Inspiration Grows Parent Cities Growing Up Household Humbling Inner City Single Parent

Author:LeBron James

“I don't want to grow up but I'm sick of not growing up - that way. I'll find a different way of not growing up. There's a better way of doing it than torturing your body.”

Way Want Different Body Grows Growing Up Growing Sick Your Body Different Ways Better Ways

Author:John Lennon

“Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.”

Want Kids Night Sides Growing Up Growing Grew Projects Grew Up Lonely Police Scared Every Night Sirens Lonely Nights

Author:LeBron James

“Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't know any actor who grew up with any particular privilege, so everyone wrestles with this. And I think, a lot of times, it's about being patient with your kids.”

Thinking Knows Kids Actors Growing Up Growing Particular Grew Grew Up My Friends Patient Privilege

Author:Matt Damon

“I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language.”

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Author:Patrick Stump

“When you grow up believing you are what you do, when you're done, you aren't.”

Believe Done Grows Growing Up

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I was blessed to grow up on a farm, and when you're a farm boy, exercise is part of your lifestyle. Like it or not, that environment makes you work out. On the farm, nature is your gym. You walk and run and swim and have to do a lot of work with animals too.”

Running Grows Walks Animal Boys Growing Up Environment Exercise Blessed Work Out Lifestyle Swim Gym Farms

Author:Cesar Millan

“As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.”

People Kind Shows Dream Kids Wanted Grows My Own Poverty Growing Up Gave Up

Author:Cristela Alonzo

“When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur and so that's what I've been striving for all of my life.”

Two Dream Wanted Growing Up Growing Strive Pet Dinosaurs Montana

Author:Jack Horner

“The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.”

World Children Growing Up Growing My Children Exposed Sophisticated Sexually

Author:Amy Grant

“Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.”

Play Girl Growing Up Growing Band Clubs

Author:Meredith Brooks

“I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.”

Heart School Used Growing Up Saws Growing Heartbeat Skip Chuck Wilson Jackie Flamingos Newark

Author:George Clinton

“I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.”

Long Mother Father Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Heritage

Author:Gloria Gaynor

“The singer who really opened the door for me was Sarah Vaughan. But I listen to so much music, especially when I was growing up. My parents loved jazz music, so on Saturday [laughing] it would be the "Longine's Symphonettes," and on Sunday it was Mahalia Jackson.”

Would Be Parent Laughing Growing Up Growing Doors Jazz Singers Sunday Saturday Jazz Music

Author:Dianne Reeves

“Petersburg, growing up at home, all by my family and friends, Petersburg really, city-raised me, you know everybody there.”

Knows Home Cities Growing Up Growing My Family Raised Family And Friends

Author:Trey Songz

“There's a song called 'The Lights of My Hometown' that goes back to me growing up a regular kid. I mean, I lived in a town that I loved, but was too small for the dreams I was dreaming. You leave thinking the world has a lot more to offer than your hometown, only to realize years down the road that no matter where you grow up, you will never be able to recreate the innocence and feeling of 'home' anywhere else in the world. No matter who you are, or where that little town is, that's something we all have in common.”

Thinking World Years Mean Littles Matter Feelings Home Dream Light Kids Able Song Grows Realizing Common Growing Up Growing Offers Towns Who You Are Innocence Down The Road Hometown Little Towns

Author:Aaron Lines

“I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I thought it was ideal that anyone could just put together a group and make it work. Then, of course, it became a little more detailed after starting it and realizing that it was something serious, not just a one-off situation. I had to put a lot more into it. Also I did it to get a lot of things out of my system, things that had been put there while I was growing up in my family. A sort of exorcizing of demons.”

Littles Together Courses Felt Realizing Situation Growing Up Growing Groups Serious Scene Ideals My Family Starting Demon Coming Out Punk

Author:Rozz Williams

“Growing up in a house with six brothers and sisters is a lot like being on a tour bus. There's not a whole lot of private space, so you figure out how to make it work.”

Whole House Space Growing Up Growing Figures Brother Six Bus Brothers And Sisters

Author:Michael Timmins

“When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated”

Years Boys Growing Up Growing Realised Suburbs Devastated

Author:Darren Hayes

“When I was two I was always like "I wanna be a famous singer when I grow up." When you listen to most kids they went in and did all these competitions. I was never like that, my mom never pushed me like that. I pretty much just sang when I wanted to.”

Two Kids Wanted Grows Growing Up Mom Competition My Mom Singers Famous Singer

Author:Kiley Dean

“I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I can't imagine that if I had kids I would raise them anywhere else besides Chicago.”

Ifs Feels I Can Bigs Kids Grows Cities Growing Up Imagine Raises Chicago Imagine That Big Cities

Author:Chris McCaughan

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