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“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.”

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Author:Dan Mangan

“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

“As a kid growing up and seeing so much strife taking place in society, and particularly on Blacks and people of color, I had an opportunity as a young man to witness the change that was taking place in Harlem, the exodus of white folks leaving Harlem, which I thought was a very cohesive situation. But they felt that they needed to leave.”

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Author:John Carlos

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

“We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.”

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Author:Christopher Morley

“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.”

“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.”

“In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.”

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Author:Adam Sandler

“Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.”

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Book:The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

Source: The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

“I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.”

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Author:Sylvester Stallone

“You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.”

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Author:Patrick Swayze

“I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.”

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Author:Tina Turner

“I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.”

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Author:Stephen Chbosky

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

Source: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)

“Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.”

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Author:Jeff Bridges

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”

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Author:Virginia Woolf

“Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.”

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Author:Kobe Bryant

“The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

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Book:The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

“Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.”

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Author:James M. Barrie

“...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.”

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Book:House of Thieves

Source: House of Thieves

“Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.”

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Author:Lady Bird Johnson

“There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, 'don't smoke marijuana, it will kill you'.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We're two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.”

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Author:Bobby Knight

“As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.”

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Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up.”

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Author:Larisa Oleynik

“Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.”

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Author:David Blaine

“Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.”

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Author:Michael P. Anderson

“Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.”

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Author:Antoine Fuqua

“No young kid growing up dreams of someday becoming a businessman. He wants to be a fireman, a sponsored athlete or a forest ranger The Lee Iacoccas, Donald Trumps, and Jack Welchs of the business world are heroes to no one except other businessmen with similar values.”

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Author:Yvon Chouinard

“I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.”

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Author:Junot Diaz

“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”

“As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.”

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Author:Robbie Keane

“Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.”

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Author:Neil Jordan

“Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.”

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Author:Ed Bradley

“When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family – real silly high-concept productions like, 'Attack of the Killer Handkerchief.' I guess I knew even then that I wanted to be an actress.”

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Author:Lana Parrilla

“To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up.”

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Author:Dave Franco

“When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.”

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Author:John Barrowman

“When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.”

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Author:Greg Louganis

“As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be.”

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Author:Ron Francis

“As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me.”

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Author:Robert Osborne

“For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.”

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Author:Kevin Spacey

“I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was sort of opposed to golf. I was a country club kid growing up. I should have played golf, but my father thought golf was a sport for old men.”

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Author:Mike Greenberg

“As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.”

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Author:Jarvis Cocker

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