"Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention."
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"To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture."
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"I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now."
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"There are always times in life that you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That's what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you're most afraid."
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"We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But know that it's still there."
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"Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up."
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"I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up."
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"We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."
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"Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either."
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"Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up."
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"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."
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"I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life."
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"It's like running away to join the circus, everyone wants to do it when they're young but then you grow up and get a proper job. But somebody's got to do it or you wouldn't have the circus."
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"Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt."
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"I give thank for God for my roots in the Word of Faith teachings. It is truly on the shoulders of great men of God like Brother Kenneth E. Hagin that we are able to see further into the Word of God today. Growing up, I learned a lot about faith from Brother Hagin who truly had a special revelation of faith from the Lord. I deeply honor and respect him for all that he has taught me."
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"The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does."
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"I think I'm finally growing up - and about time."
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"Growing up, I was in love with Jennifer Aniston from Friends."
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"Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture."
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"...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution."
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