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“I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I didn't even know what it had been doing to me. I didn't realize how dangerous it was. People talked in terms of drugs and I used to think in terms of...well in Ireland, everybody drinks. Nobody gives it a second thought. You're Irish number one and you're a drinker number two. That's the first two things about us Irish.”

“I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too complicated." I think, yeah, but I remember being a kid and holding up a new piece of technology that was made in the '80s and my grandparents going, "Oh, it's too complicated." It didn't seem complicated to me.”

Thinking Feels Made Seems Kids Remember Technology Growing Up Pieces Growing Right Now Yeah Complicated Grandparent 80s Ipads Kids Growing Up Being A Kid Complicated Life

Author:Dan Mangan

“Lil Wayne would probably be a big musical inspiration for me, because growing up I was just the biggest Wayne fan and being able to be signed to him and watch his whole journey to the peak of his career is great.”

Whole Bigs Inspiration Able Careers Watches Growing Up Growing Journey Fans Musical Wayne

Author:Tyga

“My mom, who gave me my confidence growing up. She's the one that always told me that I could be great and to never stop. And myself. Because I came such a long way.”

Way Long Growing Up Growing Mom My Mom Long Way

Author:Amber Rose

“Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.”

Pain Effort Growing Up Growing Groups Mere Thoughtful Mastery Deliberate Subsistence

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.”

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Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.”

Humans Has Beens Might Actors Growing Up Growing Human Nature Curious Might Have Been

Author:Michael Fassbender

“Personally, I think that children should be left alone, they should be given an opportunity to grow up, to become aware of themselves and decide themselves who they are: men or women, if they want to have a traditional or homosexual marriage.”

Ifs Thinking Men Want Should Children Opportunity Left Given Grows Growing Up Traditional Homosexual Left Alone Homosexual Marriage

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.”

People Helping Guy Growing Up Growing Areas Phones Dinner Campaigns Sat Camps Charming Very Cool

Author:Jay-Z

“When I was growing up, you had to conform and do the same thing that everyone else was doing. I would just go home and make music and be able to make myself happy, but I know that's more of a challenge for some people.”

People Knows Home Able Challenges Growing Up Growing Conform

Author:Charlie Puth

“When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.”

Want Pain Fall Growing Up Growing Dad Superhero Pedestal Your Dad

Author:Jay-Z

“Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle it, you know; I'm a big boy. And the entertainment industry has always been crazy. But the problem is, it spills over into some very serious issues, in politics and real newsworthy stuff.”

“I tried to make it as real for them as possible. The thing about being reality is that reality is not always fun. They did a big piece of growing up that day.”

Real Bigs Reality Fun Growing Up Pieces Growing Being Real

Author:Robert Stack

“To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions.... It's time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No magic pill will do it.”

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Author:Doc Childre

“It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.”

Thinking Kind Made Different Girl Differences Deals Growing Up Growing Smart Different Kinds Cool Things Very Cool Smart Girl

Author:Elena Kagan

“Growing up, my Mexican town of Monterrey was so safe, we wouldn't lock our cars or our front doors, and that is gone.”

Gone Growing Up Growing Doors Car Fronts Safe Towns Locks Mexican Front Doors

Author:Andrea Suarez Paz

“Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi, Christie.' I thought they were just popular.”

Knows Parent Growing Up Growing Christie Saying Hi

Author:Alexa Ray Joel

“My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was growing up. He started out distributing films from India here in the '70s because there was no place to go for people to watch movies from the homeland. So he developed a network of actors, writers, directors, and musicians that became his friends and that he would tour around the country with, doing stage shows of the musical numbers from their films.”

“When I got into film school, it really formed a sense of who I am and my sense of feeling like an outsider. If there was some greater purpose to do this, it would be so that future generations - my kids or my sister's kids - would grow up seeing themselves in their media culture in a way that I didn't. If The Mindy Project or Master of None were on when I was growing up, I wonder if I would be interested in doing this at all”

“I knew no one in this business, and the only acting I'd ever done was in a first-grade play. I understood some of my talents - growing up playing piano, and my operatic voice led me to All-State in my first, and only, year of singing - but I didn't yet know all of my capacities. My parents felt helpless, as they knew nothing about this world and couldn't help me in any way except through pure love.”

“I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and I really feel like it prepared me to be a storyteller - to make up stories and pretend to be every hero from every movie and TV show as a kid. So it was a natural progression.”

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Author:Joe Robert Cole

“I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.”

Way Remember Girl Growing Up Growing Hated

Author:Nan Goldin

“You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or your mid-20s. When you are starting to grow up and show your character in your face.”

Knows Said Character Shows Faces Grows Growing Up Starting Your Face

Author:Nan Goldin

“My sons are my proudest 'accomplishments' in life and I get energised seeing their individual personalities develop as they grow up.”

Individual Grows Growing Up Seeing Son Personality Accomplishment My Son Individual Personality

Author:Azran Osman Rani

“It's not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own, living their entire lives in the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of the parents every single day.”

Children States Grows Parent Growing Up Movement Fairs Army Palestinian Not Fair

Author:Mark Shields

“Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like no one in my family is really doing that, I can be that person.”

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Author:Jillian Hervey

“I think growing up, you just deal with 'I'm ugly,' or 'I don't look right,' or 'my hair is wrong,' and it's such a distraction from what can really elevate you.”

Thinking Looks Deals Growing Up Growing Hair Ugly Distraction

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I want these to be names that young girls and boys and kids of all genders grow up knowing. It shouldn't just be when you take a feminist class in college, if you happen to do that. I hope this is fun and engaging for folks to watch.”

Ifs Want Happens Kids Young Girl Names Fun Grows Class Boys Watches Growing Up Knowing College Folks Feminist Gender Engaging Boy And Girl

Author:Anita Sarkeesian

“When I was growing up, I would listen to a different album almost every night. I would do the full album experience before I went to bed and that's how I would discover a lot of music. I would kind of go into another world with my headphones on.”

World Kind Different Night Growing Up Growing Bed Albums Every Night Another World Headphones

Author:Mark Stoermer

“I also know that I have represented for us a certain kind of journalist and for me over the years when an older Black person comes and tells me how proud they are of me and the way I represent us on television, or when a younger person says to me, 'Hey Mr. Gordon, I watched you growing up and my parents made me watch you,'.”

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Author:Ed Gordon

“The only thing my mum could afford growing up was to be able to look after me and my brother so the only thing that I wanted when I grew up was to be able to look after my mum. So when I could, I bought her a house and then I got her a car as well and I got her a little air freshener to put in her car and on it, it said "life is a journey not a destination."”

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Author:John Newman

“My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.”

Bigs Growing Up Growing Mom Personality My Mom Shy Shyness

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“Initially, it connected with me when I was a kid, seeing a lot of movies while growing up in Los Angeles. And Sam's [Fuller] pictures are an expression of such a distinct voice that he was one of those filmmakers who made me aware that there was, in fact, a real presence behind the camera that was telling the story, as opposed to actors just presenting it.”

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Author:Curtis Hanson

“These younger kids - I think growing up with social media, they're just savvy.”

Thinking Kids Social Growing Up Growing Media Social Media Savvy

Author:John Stamos

“Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.”

Littles Shows Feelings America Remember Parent Growing Up Growing Tvs Late Wave Articles Tv Shows Eighty

Author:Mindy Kaling

“You know, growing up my - you know, I came from Compton, Calif., and, you know, it was a place where a lot of people did come out when a lot of people stayed. So I've been able to see the top and the bottom of life, and I think that balances you if you allow it to and if you remember where you came from.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Able Remember Growing Up Growing Balance Bottom Compton Remember Where You Came

Author:Venus Williams

“I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“What gave her [Diane Wilson] the courage? If you look at someone like Diane, it's easy to say, well I could never be like that. But we don't know. We do know that it's possible for a woman, who didn't grow up as a world changer, to find it in herself to take a stand.”

Ifs Knows World Wells Looks Grows Easy Growing Up Wilson

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with two parents who founded a Unitarian Church. We lived in a little frame house, and my bedroom was just down the hall from the kitchen. My favorite memories of childhood are of the smell of coffee wafting into my bedroom as my parents and their friends talked about the big, important things - about racism and about how to move our country to live its values.”

“[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.”

Father Grows Parent Born Growing Up Mets University

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost interest and went more towards literature and then medicine and then business and so on. But for me it became something that I did well. And it felt great being able to make something look like something.”

Wells Looks Able Artist Literature Lost Stars Felt Interest Growing Up Growing Brother Medicine Twins Like Something Twin Brother

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I think that's okay and that is part of growing up and that is good, to learn that the world isn't always your oyster or isn't everybody's oyster.”

Thinking World Growing Up Growing Okay Oysters

Author:Morgan Saylor

“When you first start off, I know singers who have only been in the business just a short amount of time, and they've already written their autobiography. I didn't want to write it too soon. I wanted to live a while and write about things that I felt were important to me - growing up in Wales, and the characters that I met and listened to.”

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Author:Tom Jones

“I remember what a thrill it was to attend my first Champions Dinner. Just being in the same room with some of the guys I had admired growing up and to be there because I had won The Masters was quite an honor. I still attend the dinner every year and it is one of the highlights of my time at Augusta during Masters week.”

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Author:Arnold Palmer

“I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm right where I belong.”

Moments Wanted Realizing Growing Up Growing

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“I did not grow up spoiled in any way. I just wanted to be on TV.”

Way Wanted Grows Growing Up Tvs Spoiled

Author:Miley Cyrus

“This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a huge, looming backdrop when I was coming of age and when I was a kid growing up. I think we're living in one of those times right now where, in 20 years, people will be writing and talking about it.”

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Author:Patterson Hood

“When I was growing up, all the films about teenagers were played by Tony Curtis or John Cassavetes when they were 27, 28 years old. We would see these teenage movies in the theaters and I would say, "They don't look like they're my age at all." So I wanted to make a movie that was real and I wanted to make a movie that wasn't about me.”

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Author:Larry Clark

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