Grew Up Quotes - Page 6

• I used the N-word instead of calling him Trevor. I used it just not thinking... I told Trev this is an old wound with me. I grew up with it. I am sorry as anybody that it stuck with me.

  John Vanbiesbrouck

  Sorry, Thinking, Nhl

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• I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

  Jim Renacci

  Thinking, Coal Miners, Grandfather

  "Exclusive Interview with Jim Renacci, GOP Candidate in OH-16". Interview with Mytheos Holt, www.nationalreview.com. September 1, 2010.

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• Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still is. It has launched our favorite writers. It has made a special claim for the quarterly as such, being both timely and lasting, free of the news of the day or the pressure to please a crowd. Most of all, the Review has shown, repeatedly, that works of imagination can be as stylish and urgent as the flashiest feature reporting, and can do more to refocus our picture of the world.

  Lorin Stein

  Our Generation, America, Imagination

  "Editor's Note". www.theparisreview.org. 2010.

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• I grew up eating street tacos and burritos on the beach, so I like people who can eat and aren't afraid to show it.

  Emily Ratajkowski

  Beach, People, Burritos

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are civilized animals, right? Then why do we continue to slaughter for sport? What if you were a Chicken, how would you feel? I grew up in a Chicken Coop and I was not a Chicken at first, until I was faced with your World!

  Buckethead

  Sports, Animal, What If

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• I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

  Carrie Underwood

  Listening, Albums, Want

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• I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.

  Rooney Mara

  School, Weekend, Littles

  "Rooney Mara: Playing with Fire". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I grew up around horses, but acting and riding on camera is a whole different thing.

  Emilia Clarke

  Horse, Acting, Cameras

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• I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

  Ben Stiller

  Movie, Careers, Way

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• I grew up singing and dancing, so people have been calling me gay since fifth grade. I've heard everything you could possibly hear about it. But I do love gay people, so I'm not going to act like I was insulted or angry about it.

  Matthew Morrison

  Gay, People, Dancing

  Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. December 18, 2009.

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• Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

  Jayma Mays

  Growing Up, Home, Piano

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

  Brad Paisley

  Depression, Dark, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.

  Tim McGraw

  Strong, Baptists, Backgrounds

  "Flicka (2006)". Interview with David Bruce, www.hollywoodjesus.com. May 28, 2005.

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• I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Mom, New York, Kids

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• I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

  John Ratzenberger

  Connecticut, Grew

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• I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

  Jerry O'Connell

  Boys, House, Stuff

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• Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

  David Duchovny

  Somewhere Else, Guy, Doe

  Interview with Lawrence Grobel, www.playboy.com. December, 1998.

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• I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that’s what I thought I was going to do – be an ice hockey player.

  Nicola Peltz

  Brother, Hockey, Player

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.

  Eminem

  Boys, Hip Hop, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and NWA and I never went out and shot nobody.

  Eminem

  Listening, Grew, Shots

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

  Harry Belafonte

  School, West Indies, Students

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• I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And I fantasized about being a drug-dealer when I was a kid. I thought it would be a good opportunity; I knew that the market would be strong. Is that bizarre?

  Jared Leto

  Strong, Kids, Artist

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• James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Guy, Desire, Mcqueen

  "Mark Wahlberg: family man, business man, renaissance man" by Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

  Anna Kendrick

  Humble, Ambition, Humility

  "Anna Kendrick: 'It's all about that fatal flaw'" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2012.

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• I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

  Colin Firth

  Mother, Years, America

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