Young Age Quotes - Page 15

• I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.

  Howard Schultz

  Dream, New York, Dad

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• My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep.' To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

  Howard Schultz

  Mother, Company You Keep, Age

  "Starbucks boss: we're not all froth". Interview with Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2009.

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• I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

  Maria Sharapova

  Birthday, Age, Pasta

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• My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Birthday, Mom, Growing Up

  "Interview With a True Original, Emeril Lagasse". Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2011.

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• My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.

  Josh Duhamel

  Mother, Teacher, Growing Up

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• We have to understand that we should, at all times, have the right and the power to make decisions about our bodies. And that is an idea that must be taught at a young age. You can't wait until a person is 18 years old and say, 'Now you have the right'. You have to start that from the gate.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Years, Ideas, Decision

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• My career in racing started at a very young age in California.

  Jeff Gordon

  Careers, California, Racing

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• People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

  Thom Filicia

  People, Age, Young

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

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• I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied when I worked in that field.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Father, Age, Fields

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

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• From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

  Hayley Atwell

  Imagination, Age, Stories

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• We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Kids, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

  Chris Evert

  Missing, Age, Young

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• Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Kids

  Twitter post from May 22, 2013

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• The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Shoes, Feet

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• I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.

  Fred Couples

  Home, Age, Married

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• I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.

  Paula Cole

  Ocean, Wings, Age

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• I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

  Ted Dekker

  Kids, Parent, Age

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• We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

  Viola Davis

  Writing, Escaping, Age

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

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• My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.

  Brian Austin Green

  Mother, Dad, Real

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• I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.

  Sadie Frost

  Independent, Age, Ambitious

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

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• With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

  Vanilla Ice

  Age, Fame, Stressful

  The Onion interview, www.avclub.com. May 06, 1998.

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• I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.

  Amy Hempel

  Mother, Accomplishment, Age

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• Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.

  Sara Blakely

  Trying, Age, Want

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• I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

  Josh Gad

  Mother, Powerful, Sadness

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• I had to work from a young age.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Age, Young

  "Q&A: Giancarlo Esposito, True Gentleman, on Revolution and Breaking Bad". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2012.

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