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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad never explained anything growing up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Swaledale, in Iowa. Its population was 220 when I was growing up, and it's probably 150 now. I lived in town and sometimes worked on the farms outside of town in the summers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.
- Entirety
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sister was in ballet growing up. I spent almost the entirety of 7 through 12 backstage at Lincoln Center, just running around, waiting for 'The Nutcracker' to end.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's French, and I spent my summers in France growing up. So I speak French fluently, and obviously, I speak English because I was raised in New York, and I grew up here.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got kids that are growing up in a Donald Trump world because we screwed up because we haven't been able to craft a message and push policies that connect with working class people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not funny growing up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter. It was part of what made me very reclusive as a kid.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security.
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- Nov 07, 2020