Growing Up Quotes

My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid. Ryan Lochte
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When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure. Ryan Lochte
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I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore. Ryan Lochte
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Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all. Ryan Murphy
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When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did. Ryan Murphy
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I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo. Ryne Sandberg
People Organization Hero Seen Rose Like Steve Coming Heard Up Taught Mike Pete Rose Growing Growing Up Players
Being black in America - especially as I was growing up - the feeling of oppression, the feeling of being outcast, the feeling of not having a voice was part of my life. Rza
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The influence of the Shaw Brothers films on my work has been profound. In addition to the richness of Asian culture, we at Wu-Tang were fascinated with the struggles between the oppressed Chinese villagers and the repressive Manchu authority and how it mirrored our own experiences growing up as black kids in America's inner cities. Rza
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There's something different about growing up black and Muslim, especially in New Jersey. It's like when I left the mosque and I left my dad, I felt unprotected, but I also felt a weird sense of pride, like I was involved in this other way of living that was cool to me. SZA
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I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately. Sabrina Lloyd
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For me, fashion is one of the biggest changes. I never got to wear Chanel or anything like that, growing up, or really experience fashion the way I get to now. Sadie Sink
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As a working woman, thinking back to someone I'd want to see on TV growing up are women who can make something of themselves and their future. Sallie Patrick
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When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star. Sally Kirkland
Beautiful You Soul Monroe Give Glamorous Learned Because Vulnerable Were Up Very Just Just Because Movie Movie Star Your Star Growing Growing Up Watching Marilyn Marilyn Monroe
'Pi' was one of my favorite films growing up because I thought it employed paranoia and voice-over, and also because it used this unreliable narrator in a very fascinating way. Sam Esmail
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I was a nerd, growing up, I was really into computers and technology, and most of my friends were basically in that world as well. Sam Esmail
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I remember growing up in suburban New Jersey, and all the computer stores were like, 'Motherboard Mayhem' and all these cheesy names. Sam Esmail
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Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture. Sam Esmail
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Music was always ever present when I was growing up, and it's continued to be the most important and intrinsic part of me. It kept me from going off the rails as a kid, and it gave me rare purpose and self-confidence that I couldn't find from anything else. Sam Fender
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Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs. Sam Graves
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When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie. Sam Heughan
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I think so much of your energy when you're growing up is about becoming independent of your parents. And the older you get, the more you realise you're actually so much part and parcel of the same kind of material. Sam Neill
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My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from the States, so even in my family when I was growing up, my mom said I was the American one, and my dad said I was the weird African one. Sam Richardson
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud. Sam Worthington
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When I was growing up in the Isle of Man with ambitions of being a performer, I really wanted to go to see a Broadway show. Samantha Barks
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Ever since I was a kid and growing up and watching things like the 'Naked Gun' movies, there was always this stereotype about how Arabs were perceived and portrayed. I've never watched those Arab villains in the movie and felt like that was me. Sami Zayn
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Growing up, I was aware of the kids-don't-like-vegetables trope, but it didn't make much sense to me. I never had any choice; all the traditional Iranian dishes my mom cooked teemed with herbs and vegetables. Samin Nosrat
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