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“I wanted to give people a glimpse of my lifestyle and into the lifestyle of me and all my friends and all the people that I know. It's basically just coming up and going up. It's about growing up, elevating, chilling and vibing. And smoking. I wanted to make a piece of art that you could put on while you are hot boxing your car and riding around with your friends.”

People Knows Giving Art Wanted Growing Up Pieces Growing Car My Friends Hot Lifestyle Boxing Smoking Riding Glimpse Chill Elevating

Author:Young De

“It's a social media time, where you have YouTube and everything it's kind of like you see my career grow up on camera. But a lot of the things that you would see from artists would be behind the scenes that nobody would know about before, now it's all on display.”

Knows Kind Would Be Artist Social Grows Behinds Careers Growing Up Media Like You Scene Cameras Social Media Display Youtube Behind The Scenes

Author:Young De

“In my entire life growing up I've never heard my dad say an unkind word about anyone. My father has always taken the high road in life and to me he's a complete inspiration without being a pushover.”

Inspiration Father Growing Up Taken Growing Heard Dad My Dad Unkind Kind Words High Road Unkind Words Pushovers

Author:Hugh Panaro

“I want to be the best role model I can be for my family. I want my husband and I to be the ones our kids look to for guidance, to be the great role models that I had with my parents growing up, so for as hard as we work, I want our kids to see us having fun. I want our kids to know that we have to feel our bodies. And nutrition is a huge part of that.”

“Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical comedians of the silent-era. What we were able to do together is to show all these major influences but make it into our own comedy. We've seen the stereotypical boy-meets-girl story a hundred thousand times…”

Stories Shows Able Together Girl Boys Growing Up Comedy Growing Influence Thousand Majors Hundred Silent Eras Comedian Charlie Brooks Comedic Chaplin Boy Meets Girl

Author:J. Robert Spencer

“I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.”

Has Beens Important Play Grows Growing Up Dad My Dad Dna

Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting.”

Thinking Mean Grows Term Growing Up Rocks Band Indie Rock

Author:Justin Vernon

“So you grow up with those messages, "You're a failure, you embarrass me, that's why I dress you in dark colors etc." or even when parents commit suicide, the child may think they were a failure as a child causing that. The majority of those people who weren't loved turn to drugs and alcohol and suicide.”

People Thinking May Children Turns Grows Parent Dark Growing Up Color Drug Messages Dresses Suicide Majority Alcohol Commit Etc Drugs And Alcohol Dark Colors

Author:Bernie Siegel

“Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.”

People Knows Know How Growing Up Growing Tests

Author:Johnny Marr

“I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn't grow up there.”

Real Feelings Wanted America Grows Growing Up Qualified Real Things

Author:Johnny Marr

“They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a very, very small section in the history books. It's not something they really touch on directly with American curriculums.”

Book Kids America Remember Bits Class Growing Up Focus Growing Slavery Sections Curriculum History Books History Class

Author:Aldis Hodge

“Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV.”

World Energy Creative Growing Up Growing Tvs England Obvious Theatre Prose Routes Creative Energy Malaysia

Author:Arvind Ethan David

“If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.”

Ifs Self Grows Parent Growing Up Comfortable Fake Live By Wherever You Are Great Parents

Author:Benjamin Clementine

“I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.”

Lines Cities Growing Up Growing Green Spots Between The Lines

Author:Feist

“I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly. So bands that were touring came through one way or another. We got to see stuff people in other small towns didn't, like Wesley Willis. I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up and be into music.”

People Way Grows Stuff Hours Half Growing Up New York Grew Band Grew Up Towns One Way Better Place Small Town Touring Nazareth

Author:Daughn Gibson

“When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.”

Want Needs Trying Parent Growing Up Growing

Author:Rick Nielsen

“It's interesting to talk to Bernie [Sanders] about his life and growing up, you know, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mother died at a very early age. He was young then. And, you know, I think that experience really shaped him.”

Thinking Knows Age Young Mother Interesting Growing Up Growing Died Neighborhood Immigrants Brooklyn Mother Died

Author:Tad Devine

“My father modestly referred to himself as the Great Santini when we were growing up. And he took it - I later learned he had seen a high-wire aerialist when he was a boy, and he was up doing acrobatics in his airplane, and when he came down one time - when was a young lieutenant - he said, I was better than the Great Santini today. And some of the other pilots heard it, and the nickname stuck.”

Said Today Young Father Boys Growing Up Growing Heard Stuck One Time Pilots Airplane Wire Nicknames Lieutenants Acrobatics

Author:Terry Gross

“I remember when I was growing up, you would go to a bank to open a deposit, and they'd give you a toaster. A free toaster. These days, if you're a company, and you go to a bank, they could easily turn you away! They don't want your deposits anymore.”

Ifs Want Giving Remember Turns Company Growing Up Growing These Days Remember When Deposits Toasters

Author:Mohamed El-Erian

“Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.”

Firsts America Growing Up Growing Sky England Impression Hopeful Sarcasm Grey Cheerful First Impression Grey Skies

Author:Stanley Donwood

“When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.”

Fighting Growing Up Growing Guitar

Author:Gary Jarman

“I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up in Louisville. That was sort of the only weird records I could find. All that stuff would be in the import section. And sometimes there would be some sort of goth type of stuff. But that was the stuff I was attracted to.”

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Author:David Pajo

“I think I've always been aware of it with my music. I think growing up basically and having a lot to deal with and just slowing down and having something to say and something to retract from, I think I just knew that what I was doing was extremely honest.”

Thinking Deals Growing Up Growing Honest Down And Slow Down Slowing

Author:Justin Vernon

“When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate.”

Way Grows Growing Up Rocks Communicate Singers Mediums Rock N Roll Express Yourself Instrumentation

Author:Matt Tong

“Growing up, I never thought about the thing called money.”

Growing Up Growing

Author:Patrick Wolf

“When I was a kid growing up in the '80s, the BBC showed those old Buster Crabbe serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. So instead of ponderous sci-fi or depressing sci-fi or dystopian sci-fi and all the things we're kind of used to, where it's always raining and it's always dark, I thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to do something that was just fun and absolutely nonstop?" Like, I love writing action, and this thing is that. It's all action.”

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Author:Mark Millar

“As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.”

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Author:Prefuse 73

“If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.”

Ifs Country Grows Growing Up Growing Plenty Healthcare Good Health

Author:Peter Morgan

“There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that.”

Certain Fall Girl Grows Lines Growing Up Expectations Behave

Author:Lizzy Caplan

“Well, I tried being in front of the camera as a student and that was terrifying. But the press stuff about me growing up on his [film] sets has been exaggerated. I was an extra as a kid and I was also a PA [production assistant] on one of his movies, so I was lucky to get production experience. But I was nowhere near him.”

Wells Has Beens Kids Film Stuff Growing Up Growing Fronts Students Lucky Cameras Presses Productions Extras Assistants Exaggerated Film Set

Author:Nicole Holofcener

“There was certainly nothing really sexual about my youth growing up, simply because the fact remains if you're the fat kid in a school and I was the only fat black kid in the school - in fact, I was the only black kid in the school - but if you are kind of ostracized on many different levels in your school the last thing you're worried about is sex.”

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Author:John Amaechi

“I was looking for a last name that was a first name. Growing up, I knew a kid who was the most obnoxious kid I ever knew, and his last name was Herman.”

Firsts Kids Lasts Names Growing Up Growing Obnoxious

Author:Paul Reubens

“I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.”

Growing Up Growing Opera Solo Chamber Chamber Music

Author:Tod Machover

“Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture.”

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Author:DeVon Franklin

“When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of the German rocket scientists came after war and started designing rockets for NASA, for the moon landing and all that.”

War Space Growing Up Growing Design Moon Scientist Rockets Landing Nasa Alabama Moon Landing

Author:Jimmy Wales

“I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.”

Looks Kids Used Strong Growing Up Growing Broken Tall Very Strong Uncles Look At Me Congo Bananas

Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“I'm watching my own daughter grow up. I see this overt sexual culture coming at her like a Mack truck. She's in seventh grade.”

Culture Grows My Own Growing Up Daughter Grades Truck Seventh Grade Mack Mack Trucks

Author:Peggy Orenstein

“Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me."”

Names Growing Up Teacher Growing Substitutes Pauses

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“Most importantly for me growing up, it was a spirituals, it was a gospels, it was James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Marion Williams; and then it was Curtis Mayfield - The Main Ingredient, The Whispers, Black Blue Magic, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross - that music helped me preserves my sanity, help me preserve whatever dignity I was able to preserve, helping to keep going. It was a source of tremendous strength in my life.”

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Author:Cornel West

“I was living, growing up in a very traditional household and yet at the same time I was going to school in the United States where I was taught the importance of personal preference, so at home it was all about learning your duties and responsibilities whereas in school it was all about well you get to decide what you want you want to eat.”

Want Wells States Home School United Responsibility United States Growing Up Growing Taught Duty Importance What You Want Traditional Household Preference Personal Preferences

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“You get to decide how you're going to look and what you're going to be when you grow up and when people learned that my parents actually had an arranged marriage people thought that was the most horrific thing on earth. I mean how could anybody allow their marriage of all things to be prescribed by somebody else?”

People Looks Mean Earth Grows Parent Growing Up All Things Horrific Arranged Marriage

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“Then, the other thing that affected my interest in choices growing up was the fact that I was going blind and that meant that there were lots of questions that constantly kept arising about how much choices I actually could have.”

Facts Choices Interest Growing Up Growing Blind Affected

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“I mean can you walk to school on your own? Can you study science? Can you study math? Can you go to a normal school? Do you need to go to a special school? What is going to become of you when you grow up? Are you going to have to live on social security and SSI?”

Needs Mean School Social Grows Walks Growing Up Study Special Security Normal Math Social Security

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“I mean it wasn't that they sat around thinking oh gosh I needed more choices in my grocery stores the way I had come to think about it as an American growing up.”

Thinking Way Mean Choices Growing Up Growing Needed Stores Sat Groceries Grocery Stores

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“I used to stand in front of the mirror in my bedroom. I shared a bedroom - like a lot of people in my era, in my neighborhood - with my two brothers and an uncle. And I'd stand there in front of the mirror over the dresser and I would practice: meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views of Cicero, Bacon and Baba.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“It's an ironic thing about being an immigrant kid, growing up - 'cause I grew up in the UK and went to a British boarding school and we would go to chapel every Sunday morning. And we'd actually have religious studies and religious studies means Christian studies where you study the Bible.”

“Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.”

Mean Grows Growing Up Comedy Tradition Theater Egyptian Old Traditions

Author:Bassem Youssef

“Oh gosh, well, you know, growing up in the '70s being a young boy there, you know, there were still exploitation movies, where, you know, were, you know, still opened up every week and, you know, played - sometimes they would play it at the local, you know, mall theater.”

Knows Wells Stills Sometimes Play Young Boys Growing Up Growing Week Theater Locals Exploitation Malls

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone.”

Thinking Easy Growing Up Growing Awkward Phases

Author:Emily Ratajkowski

“I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm in East Anglia. Down the street was an American cemetery for the Second World War, and every Memorial Day an American bomber would fly over that cemetery and drop rose petals.”

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