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DUNCAN HUNTER I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather ...
BONNIE RAITT Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
LARRY GAGOSIAN I grew up in a great family.
BRIAN MCBRIDE I grew up in a family of firemen and cops.
BONNIE SOMERVILLE [Jones] should have separated the issues and disagreed with the school board decision, but not rule ...
DAVID NAPIERSKIE To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relativ...
CARY FOWLER I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I grew up in a very large, poor family.
FLORENCE HENDERSON I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.
NAOMI JUDD I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and...
ANNE HATHAWAY I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.
LAURA Z. HOBSON I grew up in a family much like the 'Jerry Springer Show,'
CHRIS CAGLE I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.
KATE BROWN I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big i...
DARREN ARONOFSKY I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.
ADAM MCKAY The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY I just like singing because I grew up -- and everybody sings in my family.
COLLIN LAPP I grew up with a very political legacy.
CAMRYN MANHEIM I grew up in a poor family and I remember the day I figured out I was poor,
KATHRYN KELLY The document included some issues which have not been discussed at all.
ALEKSANDAR SIMIC I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans maki...
NADIA GIOSIA I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fost...
SHERRI SAUM My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the pol...
BILL HUIZENGA My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy busi...
KAREN MILLS I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
PARK CHAN-WOOK I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of...
GILES FODEN I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
RODNEY ATKINS I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to colle...
DAVID ALAN GRIER I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.
WOLFGANG PUCK I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing...
RONALDINHO I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
BILLY SHERWOOD I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I gre...
ALAN G. POINDEXTER But higher costs were enough to hit operating income in the quarter, which grew only 7 percent, comp...
RICHARD HASTINGS I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was marrie...
LEWIS GRIZZARD I grew up in a home where diamonds were the subject.
BENY STEINMETZ I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a fa...
JOHN BOEHNER Sourav and I discussed the balance of the team and there were a number of issues but that's all I wa...
GREG CHAPPELL Saurav and I discussed the balance of the team and there were a number of issues but that's all I wa...
GREG CHAPPELL When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek ...
CAT CORA When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in ...
BAT FOR LASHES I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.
HEIDI KLUM I grew up in a family with three brothers and sisters who joined my family through the foster care p...
CARY KENNEDY As an adult, I've always found the stereotype that Jews are liberal a curious one; my parents...
RICK PERLSTEIN I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row...
LEONARD COHEN For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot b...
CHARLES DARWIN I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.
JIMMY FALLON Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in Ne...
H. G. BISSINGER I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
LARS VON TRIER I grew up in a family of fighter pilots, and I have a real kindred spirit to that kind of fast-movin...
PATTY JENKINS I grew up in a very traditional family, but there was never anything I didn't think I could do.
HUMA ABEDIN I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.
WEILI DAI I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all tho...
JOSEPH ABBOUD I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public schoo...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS I have a bunch of brothers. I grew up with a big family.
TAYLOR KINNEY I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always...
JULIA GLASS I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of t...
MALCOLM GLADWELL I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a l...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
AKHMAD KADYROV Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm st...
ICE T I grew up in Rhode Island. Most of my family on both sides is from Rhode Island.
SEAN SPICER We discussed about some of the issues that were still causing some controversy inside the UN members...
ALI ALATAS All is well that ends well. We are very happy that all the issues were well discussed.
ROBERT MUGABE I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man g...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL I grew up in a large communal apartment where most of the rooms were occupied by my family and relat...
ANDREI SAKHAROV I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - ...
GABY HOFFMANN I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up alway...
SHOSHANNAH STERN We cannot confine the talks to security issues, ... All issues should be discussed with Ross in orde...
YASSER ARAFAT I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of t...
BARBARA CORCORAN I grew up with the 'Star Wars' movies since before I have many memories. We had them on VHS ...
IAN DOESCHER Good records - from my point of view, where I grew up which was Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull... band...
KIP WINGER I love the area I grew up in, which is right outside D.C., in Alexandria, Virginia.
CASEY WILSON Handwritten political posters - often composed in an artless and unadorned style, usually just words...
KIM YOUNG-HA Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The c...
SANJEEV BHASKAR I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of t...
WILL FERRELL I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was arou...
CHUCK PAGANO I grew up in the '70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to, which is...
JASON ROBERT BROWN In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
TINA TURNER I grew up in the Midwest. I grew up in South Dakota.
TOMI LAHREN I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale...
GUY FIERI My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a r...
RICK BAYLESS Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family.
GABY HOFFMANN My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.
ARTO LINDSAY Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.
EDWARD ZWICK I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am...
CATERINA MURINO I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up ...
WYCLEF JEAN I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains...
JENNIFER DAMIANO I think this is just the beginning. This can be her legacy, that these issues will be debated.
DENISE BURKE I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science ...
JAMES SPADER I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.
BELA KAROLYI I grew up in a family that was committed to service, to reaching out and helping others. That's ...
CARY KENNEDY I grew up about 30 minutes north of Boston in a town that was a virtual melting pot - I was exposed ...
ALEX NEWELL I grew up in a town called Cornwall, Ontario, which is about an hour outside of Montreal.
RYAN GOSLING I grew up in Arkansas, and I went to Little Rock Central High, which was the site of a desegregation...
JEFF NICHOLS I still feel like the same girl who grew up in Albion Park. I'm such a family girl. I haven'...
CASEY EASTHAM I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do...
DWAYNE JOHNSON What should have taken perhaps six years took nine or 12. Often, you had a completed plant just sitt...
ADRIAN HEYMER I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Re...
MAGGIE LAWSON I got involved in this because being raised in a certain kind of family gets you involved in politic...
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Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
But th...
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nothing.
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learn to do nothing.
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Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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But we'll do more, Sempronius,--
We'll deserve it.
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Through all her works) he ...
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Bright...
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ADRIAN JOSEPH ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
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essentially raises one man above anothe...
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always represented as blind.
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Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has s...
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Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
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JOSEPH CONRAD Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL An old Apache storyteller reminds us:
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JOSEPH JOUBERT There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; ea...
JOSEPH CONRAD Legislation, both statutory and constitutional, is enacted, it is true, from an experience of evils ...
JOSEPH MCKENNA If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of ...
JOSEPH FARRELL The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its fou...
JOSEPH FARRELL People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're really seeki...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL It seems to have had an order, to have been composed by someone, and those events that were merely a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
JOSEPH BRODSKY What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
JOSEPH BRODSKY I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
JOSEPH HELLER Follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out in...
JOSEPH CONRAD How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
JOSEPH BRODSKY Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
JOSEPH ADDISON Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily diss...
JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON