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When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline. -- Robert Knepper
Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. -- Robert Harris
I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind. -- Adam Sandler
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. -- Patrick Swayze
I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious. -- Sylvester Stallone
I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis. -- Scott Bakula
When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business. -- Joey Ramone
Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature. -- Michael P. Anderson
Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there. -- Neil Jordan
Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream. -- Antoine Fuqua
I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention. -- Sandra Bernhard
As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real. -- Robbie Keane
I wonder if kids growing up now are actually going to have that - if they're ever going to be able to unplug and have that ability to concentrate, or if it's just never going to happen for them. It's a little unnerving, frankly. -- Ron Currie Jr.
I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, 'don't smoke marijuana, it will kill you'. -- Irvine Welsh
As a kid growing up, I was so in sync as a fan that that served me well through the years. I can feel the game. And I try to match where the game is with my inflection, with my - the tonal quality, with getting excited. -- Al Michaels
No young kid growing up dreams of someday becoming a businessman. He wants to be a fireman, a sponsored athlete or a forest ranger The Lee Iacoccas, Donald Trumps, and Jack Welchs of the business world are heroes to no one except other businessmen with similar values. -- Yvon Chouinard
In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me. -- Salman Rushdie
As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it. -- Jarvis Cocker
When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies.... Now we have video, digital cameras, MP3s, and a million other ways to document ourselves. But the still photograph continues to hold a sense of mystery and awe to me. -- Catherine Opie
My father? A hard drinking man from the 70's. We actually have no pictures of my dad where he is not holding a beer. Weddings, Funerals, Water Skiing, Parent-Teacher Conference. When I got sick around him as a kid growing up, he'd always warm me up a shot of 100 proof whiskey. Never got sick... that I can remember. -- Christopher Titus
Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting. -- Kobe Bryant
It was Die Hard in my father's workshop. And so when that opportunity came up, the possibility of doing it, it's more the teenager in me who says that, 'I have to, of course I'm going to.' So that's the fun of reinventing, or just getting involved in things that really, actually loved as a kid growing up wanting to grow up to be a director. -- Len Wiseman
Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids. -- Minnie Driver
My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up. -- Damon Wayans
I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up. -- Jill Clayburgh
These younger kids - I think growing up with social media, they're just savvy. -- John Stamos
I feel kind of sorry for those kids who just play one sport growing up. -- Darin Erstad
I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up. -- Tina Turner
I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up. -- Amanda Bynes
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Kids aren't growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas. -- Kevin Spacey
Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas. -- Kevin Spacey
I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world. -- Chuck Connors
Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids. -- Daniella Monet
I mostly played 'Pac-Man', but I played 'The Sims' with my kids when they were growing up. -- Lea Thompson
When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley. -- Paul McCartney
I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean. -- Sara Bareilles
I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos. -- Leigh Newman
My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent. -- Ray Romano
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. -- Phyllis Diller
I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids. -- Kenyon Martin
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously. -- Kevin James
When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids. -- Angelina Jolie
When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents. -- Angelina Jolie
Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible. -- Jennifer Jason Leigh
We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country. -- Stella McCartney
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching. It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters, -- Geoffrey Canada
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters. -- Geoffrey Canada
All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll? -- Ty Segall
The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed. -- Rachel Kushner
I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion. -- Liya Kebede
I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that. -- Kirk Cameron
Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work. -- Tim Dorsey
There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people. -- Jodie Foster
I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up. -- Jim Gaffigan
Kids don't fight in minor hockey anymore. There's very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys are not fighting. -- Wayne Gretzky
I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up. -- Larisa Oleynik
The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail. -- Malik Bendjelloul
I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair. -- Jarod Kintz
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. -- Alice Hoffman
I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences. -- Tom Perrotta
If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity. -- Benjamin Watson
Growing up poor, I never missed out on anything. My parents did a beautiful job of not making me feel like I was lesser than any other kids. -- Mila Kunis
I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that. -- Harlan Coben
The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that. -- Michael Palin
It was a hard name having growing up as a child. Some kids would call me names like "Birbiglebug" and "Birbibliography" and "Faggot". Some were more clever than others. -- Mike Birbiglia
I think we need to do as much as we can to give back to these young kids growing up. I think we've done a pretty decent job so far. -- Mario Lemieux
For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story. -- Kevin Spacey
I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman. -- Eugene Jarecki

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