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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
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A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
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Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Anyone who grew up in the crack era - you know, I grew up in that era - knew that there were… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I was always a Favre fan. I was born in Wisconsin, and my whole family was Packers fans, so I grew up… — Colin Kaepernick Copy Share Image
I'm completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five. — Jemima West Copy Share Image
Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I grew up with a very strong sense of what is just and what is not or, to put it this way,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
When I first saw California, it was extraordinary. Because I came from old, black, dark England, still recovering from World War II.… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
I grew up a fat kid in a small town in Minnesota who was a tomboy and happened to play a mean… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs. — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
I grew up with white friends, Asian friends - Vietnamese, Chinese, Pacific Islanders. I had Hispanic friends, not just Mexican friends, but… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
As I grew a little bit older and got interested in law, I read that Clarence Darrow didn't believe in the Bible… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I sat in the barber's chair in David Miller's makeup shop, hours and hours of trial and error. While David poked at… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
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