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I think sometimes you can grow up with faith, or if you're just the kind of animal who grabs onto it or… — Terry O'Quinn Copy Share Image
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Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And… — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook—what I want the track to be about melodically—and then… — Avicii Copy Share Image
I love love. Growing up, I always thought it was a state, and I'd wait for it to appear. Now I think… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other.… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Many folks have asked me, 'How do you do it and why have you sacrificed so much to do this work?' The… — Lateefah Simon Copy Share Image
What a waste of an education Rick Santorum is! ... Let's just pray that none of his home-schooled kids grow up to… — Randi Rhodes Copy Share Image
A lot of people say they feel tired, and I think that's why we have a prevalence of coffee shops. I don't… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
It was Die Hard in my father's workshop. And so when that opportunity came up, the possibility of doing it, it's more… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching… — Gal Gadot Copy Share Image
'Goosebumps,' actually, was a very big part of my childhood, growing up, and it inspired me to get into horror and all… — Dylan Minnette Copy Share Image
Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life. When you're young, you have no worries, no drama,… — Devon Werkheiser Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I was always outside. I think that's helped me, as far as athletics go, but to improve… — Beneil Dariush Copy Share Image
I am not just, I overcome and become. I transcend into a being of past meets present. Life experience created who I… — Dominic Riccitello Copy Share Image
Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
“hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what… — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
It's always been the same, growing up in Manhattan... the idea of living within a giant archer's target... for use by the… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
[Kids] will grow up into a world that's difficult and wonderful, and they'll make the best of it they can, and hopefully… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I definitely knew that I loved acting from the very beginning. I was such a ham growing up. Wherever the camera was,… — Naya Rivera Copy Share Image
I've always loved watches my whole life. When I was growing up, I always thought of having a great watch as that… — James Marsden Copy Share Image
When you're growing up in a small town You know you'll grow down in a small town There is only one good… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
I really thought, with my background growing up, and my service, and all that, I thought it would be enough for the… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
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I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to… — Sabrina Lloyd Copy Share Image
It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with,… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image