- Nov 07, 2020
Grow Quotes
Growth rarely happens on a straight line.
Several of these reflect on how long it can take to feel ready for the next stage, and how growing up in a certain place shapes the person you become. For related ideas on adapting over time, see our Change quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Depreciation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard time and again from small business owners in Ohio that extending bonus depreciation is the single biggest factor in allowing their businesses to grow. Allowing companies to use these tools for capital reinvestment is a common-sense way to encourage job creation.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program - and not explode the deficit and national debt?
- Shoot
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
- Naked
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
- Nov 07, 2020
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
- Maturity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.
- Changed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has changed, haven't they? Everyone tries to get better; everyone tries to grow.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are unlikely to spend our last moments regretting that we didn't spend enough of our lives chained to a desk. We may instead find ourselves rueing the time we didn't spend watching our children grow, or with our loved ones, or travelling, or on the cultural or leisure pursuits that bring us happiness.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quite fearless as a kid. But I've had to realize I'm not invincible. That's what breaking your back does. It makes you grow up and reassess life.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020