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TY SEGALL
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DICK GEPHARDT
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FRIDA GIANNINI
Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking u... LUKE BRYAN I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afrai...
PATRICK STEWART I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was thei...
JAMES BADGE DALE I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
BILLY SHERWOOD
My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the ... DAVE MUSTAINE
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PENNY PRITZKER
I learned a lot when I was 14 and 15 years old doing chores inside and outside the household, and as... JACK KINGSTON I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am...
CATERINA MURINO My parents emigrated here when I was 5, so this is the city I grew up in.
ARJUN SABLOK My father always taught me to never be quiet. That's the good thing about a Bengali household.
MOUNI ROY I grew up in the Mission District in San Francisco, which was largely Hispanic at the time. I was ra...
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE I'm the ultimate studier of comedy. I grew up in a very funny household. My dad is the king of o...
SUSAN KELECHI WATSON
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ... ROBERTO BENIGNI I nannied for a couple of months. The kids were super-funny; it made me wish I grew up in a comedy h...
NIKKI GLASER I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was arou...
CHUCK PAGANO
As the youngest of six kids, I grew up spending summers on Martha's Vineyard, and I was always t... CHELSEA HANDLER Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my care...
LARENZ TATE
I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really. GUY GAVRIEL KAY I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.
MILA KUNIS
I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or book... RICHARD EYRE I was very angry. I was hurt inside. You can say like father, like son. Some of my kids were angry t...
ALLIE SALLUVINIQ
I grew up in a household where I learned five things from my old man. You know what they were? You&#... GERRY COONEY I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... J. D. SOUTHER
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specifi... JESSE EISENBERG I grew up missing my mom while she was right in front of me.
MAGGIE GEORGIANA YOUNG
The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on... BRIAN BLESSED When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.
MING-NA WEN
I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason y... JODI PICOULT I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up bei...
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ARTO LINDSAY
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BARRY ZITO
I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible... LADY GAGA I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz peopl...
HENRY THOMAS
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to s...
JASON CLARKE 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
The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ... INA GARTEN I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to...
ANDY GIBB In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I ...
MAGGIE CAREY I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I mo...
DIPLO I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told lon...
KERRY GREENWOOD
When I left the house to become an actress, my mother literally flung her body across the door and s... LORETTA SWIT I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married,...
KAREN HANDEL
I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family. NAOMI JUDD
I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop. ADAM SANDLER It was a good day in the Wedge household.
JOEL SKINNER My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There ...
LATA MANGESHKAR
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my fath...
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ
I grew up in a single family household and when you decide to go to the wall on your first project y... ROD SERLING I grew up in East Germany, and we were short on technology. So my father was really proud to be the ...
APPARAT As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called '...
PETER MORGAN I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
DOUGLAS WOOD As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit...
BETSY DEVOS
I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a... NADIA GIOSIA Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family a...
CALLUM KEITH RENNIE I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing...
RONALDINHO If I played on the East Coast, I think I would be a household name. But on the West Coast I'm a hous...
BRANDON ROY
If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think... BRETT FAVRE
With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I... ADAM BEACH
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a ... WILLIAM GIBSON In the case of these two siblings I was really interested in exploring how two people who grew up in...
HOPE DAVIS
My Father was a great boxer, and I grew up watching the fights, live and on TV too. WALTER HILL I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as ...
MAMIE GUMMER I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I've always been supported. My family has ...
ERIK HASSLE I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orch...
TREVOR RABIN
I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never ma... HOWARD SCHULTZ I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning abou...
BEL POWLEY I was a goodie-good kid; my parents both worked for the First Methodist Church in Lubbock. My father...
BOB LIVINGSTON
When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek ... CAT CORA
I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care... NICOLE SCHERZINGER
I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You ... GARRETT HEDLUND
I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma. ADAM MCKAY My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and an...
RASHID JOHNSON
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The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and... 
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. 
Only the mediocre are always at their best. 
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. 
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. 
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The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head... 
If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of ... 
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. 
Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices s... 
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of th... 
A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a
rich person who is unhappy because the p... 
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. 
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. 
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You m... 
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei... 
A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit ... 
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. 
The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons. 
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. 
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm... 
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d... 
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of ... 
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe... 
We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit... 
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. 
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. 
Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven. 
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges... 
We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released. 
Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people ha... 
Effective action is always unjust. 
Small crimes always precedes great ones. 
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unloc... 
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. 
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ... 
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. 
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tribut... 
Without money honor is merely a disease. 
The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process. 
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other han... 