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“Growing up, the ukulele was always a respected instrument. It's a big part of our culture. It wasn't until I started traveling outside of Hawaii that I realized people didn't really consider the ukulele to be a real instrument.”

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Author:Jake Shimabukuro

“Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these Southern stories, people would share these mystified experiences of the South. I wanted to talk about folklore.”

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Author:Charles Burnett

“When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty unassuming otherwise - people who didn't dress weird or do much theatrics.”

People Powerful Growing Up Growing Rocks Dresses Punk Punk Rock Really Powerful Unassuming Powerful Music Theatrics

Author:Doug Martsch

“Most young people seem to be behaving very intelligently: They look at things once in a while, but then they find it so idiotic and uncool that they just look away again. That is, provided they're not growing up in a family in which a drunk father is already watching pornos in the morning.”

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Author:Volkmar Sigusch

“What's culturally significant about MySpace is that it has become so pervasive that people of all ages are now using it. Even people who didn't grow up with it are getting used to it. People just get sucked in.”

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Author:Tom Anderson

“Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.”

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Author:Caitlin Rose

“Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.”

People Made Stills Sometimes Fun Growing Up Growing

Author:Molly Tarlov

“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.”

People Ifs Wonder Growing Up Growing Missing

Book:Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel

Source: Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel

“All I know about 1970s New York City is that it's where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection to the time and place of your growing up. It was cheap, didn't have too many people in it, you could go to the movies or whatever on the spur of the moment, you could get by without working too much and especially without involving yourself in the corporate world.”

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Author:Luc Sante

“Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of your personality, Shanghai personality becomes part of yours.”

People Grows Growing Up Personality Atmosphere Persistent Shanghai

Author:Amy Tan

“They say people from small towns have big dreams and that pretty much describes me. I had big dreams growing up and I'm still a dreamer.”

People Stills Dream Bigs Growing Up Growing Towns Dreamer Small Town Describe Me

Author:Clay Guida

“We owe something to the government to grow up in this great country. I'm tired of hearing people in the private sector talk like they don't owe the government anything. We do. This is a great country because we all pay into it. It's about time we all pay into it. ... If we paid the same amount of taxes we paid when Bill Clinton was president, I would be a happy guy, and the budget would be closer to balanced. You cannot give away money, whether you give it to rich or poor people. That's what George Bush did -- excuse me, trillions of dollars. You can't do that.”

“Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.”

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Author:Walter Smith

“Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I'm not trying to snowboard for other people anymore. That just kind of comes with age and growing up. That's helped me a lot. Some of that started right after the last Olympics (in Vancouver).”

People Trying Kind Age Lasts Growing Up Growing Olympics Vancouver

Author:Kelly Clark

“There was on section in First Corinthians 13 that talks about (showing) patience, kindness, politeness, how can I demonstrate forgiveness to my children and more fully enjoy them as they're growing up and vice versa. And so, each of those has a day's journey. There are 40 days that people will go through in applying these biblical principles for their kids. We spell them out in layman's terms so it's really easy to grasp a principle.”

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Author:Alex Kendrick

“I just gravitated toward (working behind the scenes by) growing up on the different sets and watching my father and other people in their different capacities...When I was 13 years old, I asked for a Super 8 camera.”

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Author:Michael Landon, Jr.

“There's a lot of negative messaging and it beats on you after a while. And people are growing up with that stuff and they start believing it themselves.”

People Believe Stuff Growing Up Growing Beats Negative

Author:Kevin Sorbo

“There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.”

People Children Left Grows Deals Growing Up

Book:O Pioneers

Source: O Pioneers

“So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!”

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Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.”

People Wanted School Beautiful Growing Up Saws Growing Catholic Fantastic Nun Superstar Superhuman Catholic School

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.”

People Thinking Way Play Use Language Common Growing Up Growing My Family India Typical Bombay Fooling Around

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice.”

People Want Feels Remember Values Felt Growing Up Nice Growing

Author:Ricky Williams

“Growing up, I was always the only black kid on my team and (sometimes) I'd get questions from my friends when I'd say, `I want to be in the NHL' and they'd say, `Well, there are no black people or not very many in the NHL' and as a kid, you'd wonder why. But overall, I didn't really face any racial difficulties. Nothing too bad or too lasting.”

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Author:Jarome Iginla

“It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not opposites, and that atheists are far from being on the side of reason. You can find on our website a chart which I use to demonstrate the various worldviews work out, and which one, Christianity, is rational. Many kids, however, who grow up huddled in a Christian environment find themselves in the university setting completely unequipped to defend the rationality of the Christian faith against the secular humanist worldview so prevalent on college campuses.”

“Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that does not apply anymore. They think about their life as if it was a salami which they are eating slice by slice and then they become grown-ups, but what are they now? Only those who grow up and still remain children are real human beings.”

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Author:Erich Kastner

“There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.”

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Author:Olivia Thirlby

“I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.”

People Thinking Growing Up Growing Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Sense Of Humor Just Being Brooks Lear

Author:Rob Reiner

“It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at a French film school that takes six directors a year. Once you're in, you make films under the eye of people in the industry. You grow up in front of their eyes.”

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Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven

“In all my work, I try to tell great stories that people want to go to the movie theater to watch, or want to turn on, and are compelled to watch it, over and over and over again, and will make a mark when they grow up.”

People Want Trying Stories Turns Grows Watches Growing Up Mark Theater Compelled Turn-on Movie Theater

Author:Jon M. Chu

“Some of the worst things that have happened in my career, like things getting leaked, have actually been what's best for me, because people knew when I was on that show that I was really growing up.”

People Shows Careers Growing Up Growing Happened Worst Worst Things

Author:Miley Cyrus

“When people talk about how in America, anybody can grow up to be President, I'm not sure George Bush is exactly what they had in mind.”

People Mind America Grows President Growing Up Not Sure

Author:Will Durst

“I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.”

People Children Stills Real Self Grows Growing Up Convinced Innocent Shy Real Self Magnolias

Book:Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

“Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore...instead I grew up and became something that people hated.”

People Grows Growing Up Grew Grew Up Hated Adore Superstar Antichrist

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Growing up knowing that I wanted to be a sportscaster and knowing that the best school in the country was right in my back yard, I certainly knew all there was to know about Marty Glickman and about people like Bob Costas and Marv Albert and all of the other greats that have passed through there.”

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Author:Beth Mowins

“We humans are born egocentric. The sky thunders and children believe that God is mad at them for something they've done - parents divorce and children believe it's their fault for not being good enough. Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth. Still, some people cling to this childish mind-set. As painful as their self-flagellation may be, they'd rather believe their crises are their fault so they can believe they have control. In doing so they make fools and false gods of themselves.”

Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

“When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.”

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Author:Katie Price

“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.”

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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“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.”

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Author:Roger Ailes

“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.”

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Author:Sylvester Stallone

“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.”

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Author:Paul McCartney

“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.”

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Book:Miss Wyoming

Source: Miss Wyoming

“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 guess in my house when I was growing up, I was comfortable trying to be funny. And my dad, of course, it bugged him sometimes. He was trying to rest, and I was constantly trying to say something stupid to get a reaction. But I like doing these movies. You can do it in front of the camera and then it's over. I don't have to worry about being in front of too many people.”

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Author:Adam Sandler

“I was a hockey player, growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates. As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing characters, which is actually really fun for me.”

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Author:Kevin Durand

“I like playing... I don't know. I think that's what was really exciting about playing Knives, too, from the beginning was that you get to kind of do both of that. She's almost like two different people, but that's what's cool about it, because I get to show her growth and that's the thing that's really cool about Knives, you get to really see her grow up from being meek and innocent and naïve at the beginning to this powerful girl who is going for what she really believes in and what she really wants.”

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Author:Ellen Wong

“I was definitely scared of fashion growing up just because I didn't want people to think I was gay. But now that I'm out, I feel like it's such a personal journey for me that I'm going on every single day where I feel more and more confident and comfortable to wear the clothes that I want to wear, and to have the interest that I have, and to paint my nails if I want to.”

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Author:Troye Sivan

“I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.”

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Author:Jello Biafra

“Normal people, who grow up with compassion, never amount to anything. They're the ones who end up gluing those little dots on the highway. Or, putting glue on the dots for the guy who glues dots on the highway. Screwed up people, who weren't coddled or raised with compassion, we get stuff done. Sure, we feel a little alone and abandoned, but, we're... very... happy. Why can't you love me, daddy?”

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Author:Christopher Titus

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