"Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up."
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"I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias."
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"“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”"
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"The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it."
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"I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias."
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"Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older."
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"Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth."
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"Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music."
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"I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up."
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"I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same."
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"To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away."
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"I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything."
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"I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically."
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"I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up."
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"I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god - no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists."
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"I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language."
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"Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies."
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"Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place."
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"Caine met Diana's disbelieving gaze and laughed aloud. "Why so gloomy? Doesn't every little girl want to grow up to be a queen?" "Princess," Diana said. "So, you got a promotion," Caine said."
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"[Bill Gates] wanted me to stay working at Microsoft, but I didn't think he could be CEO and we could have the family life that we both had growing up, which is what we envisioned. I knew I would go back to work at some point later to some profession. I just didn't know what."
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