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Growing Up

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Golda Meir Politician
Growing Up

"It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance."

Want Important Growing Up
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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
Growing Up

"The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."

Thinking Inspirational Growing Up
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Tom Hanks Actor, Producer
Growing Up

"Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day."

Thinking Growing Up Moon
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Amy Lee Musician
Growing Up

"Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people."

Art School Growing Up
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Robert Downey, Jr. Actor, Producer
Growing Up

"Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if I want. Growing up has some negative connotations. Like, you're not supposed to roll around on the ground anymore. You're not supposed to make fun of yourself. You're not supposed to ride a bicycle. But I'm a Toys-R-Us kid."

Kids Fun Growing Up
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Growing Up

"A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages."

Men Struggle Growing Up
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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
Growing Up

"Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success."

Children Stars Growing Up
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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
Growing Up

"When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life. Have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around that you call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again."

Fun Growing Up Wall
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
Growing Up

"My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become governor of the state of California and then stand here... then stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the president of the United States - that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream."

Dream Growing Up Motivation
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Khaled Hosseini Author, Physician
Growing Up

"No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about."

Country Hurt Growing Up
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Jorge Garcia Actor
Growing Up

"I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music, and, like, you had to get a haircut to work there, and at the time I had some pretty long hair. So after that policy was imposed, I knew that was going to be my last summer working there."

Growing Up Hair Summer
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Growing Up

"If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult."

Girl Growing Up Southern
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Thornton Wilder Playwright, Novelist, Poet
Growing Up

"I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise."

Children Growing Up Marriage
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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Growing Up

"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect."

Growing Up Freedom 4th Of July
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Russell Westbrook Professional Basketball Player
Growing Up

"I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said."

People Mind Growing Up
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Louis Bacon Businessman
Growing Up

"My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship."

Growing Up Brother Appreciation
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