Grew Quotes - Page 17

• I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

  Dwyane Wade

  Chicago, Jordan, Grew Up

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• I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say 'from Robbins, Illinois' instead of 'Chicago, Illinois.'

  Dwyane Wade

  College, Illinois, Cities

  "Dwyane Wade: Basketball Dad". Interview with Moira Lawler, www.menshealth.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

  Christopher Walken

  Speak English, Broken, People

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• By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.

  Christopher Walken

  Queens, School, Names

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• I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.

  Christopher Walken

  New York, School, Kids

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2004.

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• I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

  Christopher Walken

  New York, Real, Thinking

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• Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

  Herschel Walker

  Senior, Sports, Believe

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• I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

  Murray Walker

  Parent, Grew Up, Sensible

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• I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.'' Matthew 25:40.

  Elizabeth Warren

  School, Sunday, Church

  "Elizabeth Warren's Speech at the Democratic National Convention". www.realclearpolitics.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Mean, Doctors, Years

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• Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Mom, Heart, Men

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• I first came to Brazil in the Sixties. Then I started coming back every year since touring most of the country. I grew to love it, the people, the music. I thought this is where I belong. I've been living in Brazil for the past 23 years. I call it my stress-free country.

  Dionne Warwick

  Country, Stress, Past

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• It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.

  Dionne Warwick

  Heart, People, Giving

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• I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression.

  Reggie Watts

  Race, Expression, White

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• In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

  Jacki Weaver

  Growing Up, Son, Australia

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

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• The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.

  Florence Welch

  Fun, Home, Thinking

  "The unstoppable rise of Florence Welch". Interview with John Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.

  Paul Weller

  Home, America, Grew Up

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

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• Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.

  Paul Weller

  Country, Song, Kids

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• I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

  Vivienne Westwood

  War, Looks, World

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• If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.

  Betty White

  Hate, Men, Doors

  "Follow a lady's word: Betty White dispenses some relationship advice for the average male". Q&A, www.heraldextra.com. May 13, 2011.

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• I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.

  Bradley Whitford

  Good Life, Growing Up, Kids

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• I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

  Andrew Wiles

  Love, Childhood, England

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.

  E. O. Wilson

  Kids, Bugs, Periods

  "E.O. Wilson's Advice for Future Scientists". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. June 21, 2013.

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• I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

  E. O. Wilson

  Southern, Baptists, Adherence

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• To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

  Reese Witherspoon

  June, Play, Religion

  "Walk The Line - Reese Witherspoon interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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