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Growing Up

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Paulo Coelho Writer
Growing Up

"Only children believe they're capable of everything. They're trusting and fearless; they believe in their own power and get exactly what they want. When children grow up, they start to realize that they're not as powerful as they thought and that they need other people in order survive. Then the child begins to love and to hope his love will be requited; and as life goes on, he develops an ever-greater need to be loved in return, even if that means having to give up his power. We all end up where we are now: Grown-ups doing everything we can to be accepted and loved."

Children Growing Up Giving Up
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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Growing Up

"I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash."

Boys Growing Up Hair
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Growing Up

"I love the old movies from my past, when I was growing up. I just have a special place in my heart for them. They kind of feel like comfort food to me, so watching them is just cozy and warm."

Heart Past Growing Up
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Cee Lo Green Musician
Growing Up

"So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!"

World Growing Up Band
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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
Growing Up

"Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it turned out that it didn’t matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms."

Mother Growing Up Blood
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Growing Up

"And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!"

Book Animal Growing Up
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Tubby Smith Basketball Coach
Growing Up

"My favorite thing about coaching? Teaching. Being around young people, just watching a player grow and develop. You know, a young man comes in with dreams and goals and ambitions and just helping him reach (them). It's like your dad watching you grow up and like me watching my boys grow."

Dream Growing Up Dad
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Trey Parker Animator, Writer, Director
Growing Up

"The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything."

Growing Up Skills Marijuana
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Ricky Williams Football Player
Growing Up

"I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice."

People Nice Growing Up
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Rozz Williams Musician
Growing Up

"I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I thought it was ideal that anyone could just put together a group and make it work. Then, of course, it became a little more detailed after starting it and realizing that it was something serious, not just a one-off situation. I had to put a lot more into it. Also I did it to get a lot of things out of my system, things that had been put there while I was growing up in my family. A sort of exorcizing of demons."

Together Growing Up Groups
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Hannah Simone Actress
Growing Up

"My family’s said to me from the beginning, ‘People are always going to tell you to pick what you want to be when you grow up. You take that and throw it out the window, that’s garbage. People are complicated and we love many things and we’re passionate about many things. You can be a human rights activist and also be doing these comedy plays in your community and that’s OK. All those things are a part of who you are and you can love them equally."

Play Growing Up Rights
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Growing Up

"When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain."

Growing Up Rain Buddhist
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Joseph Murray Surgeon
Growing Up

"Is the Church inimical to science? Growing up as a Catholic and a scientist - I don't see it. One truth is revealed truth, the other is scientific truth. If you really believe that creation is good, there can be no harm in studying science. The more we learn about creation - the way it emerged - it just adds to the glory of God. Personally, I've never seen a conflict."

Believe Growing Up Catholic
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Growing Up

"We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into."

Years Growing Up Acting
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Growing Up

"Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix."

Growing Up Grandmother Exotic
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