- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing Up Quotes
Childhood memories, changed towns, and questions of identity.
These quotes span the specific texture of growing up - undecided ambitions, hometowns that later feel transformed, and early sporting or family memories that stick for life. Related reflections continue in Experience.
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- Michael Jackson
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson... and Placido Domingo.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music that I'm known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite - I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name's 'Jorma.' I didn't watch much television growing up because they weren't into it at all.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously the music I listened to growing up helped create my musical pallet. My parents were into pop, soul, disco, RNB, Latin, jazz and Middle Eastern music.
- Nov 07, 2020
I took tap classes growing up.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, Asians weren't known for dancing. I knew all my older aunts and uncles did, like, ballroom dancing and stuff. And then you saw all those dance crews, like Quest and Jabbawockeez, and now they're, like, known for dance.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I remember hearing was just the dance music that was in the charts when I was growing up. I don't remember many of the names of specific tracks - they were just kind of early acid house things.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of my childhood growing up in Oklahoma, where I wrestled and played baseball.
- Chocolate
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, chocolate milk was a treat, and the chocolate milk that ended up in a bowl of Cocoa Puffs when I had those for breakfast was the biggest treat of all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a lovely time growing up. But I was very aware of the miners' strike going on, friends' families collapsing, and people being unemployed.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020