- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up Quotes
Growing up, getting through, adding up.
This set of up quotes centers on growing up in a tough neighborhood and the resilience that experience builds over time. One entry treats that upbringing as proof of a law-abiding life that followed. Related themes continue in our Hope quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of the people I grew up with had identity problems. We all had perfectly marvelous lives.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no need to get caught up in any apocalyptic prophecies that have no basis in reality.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.
- Dish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in an African household, so lots of chicken, lots of rice. We ate Jollof rice, a very West African dish.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
- Close Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020