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Image of Dave Grohl
I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.
- Dave Grohl
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Michel Foucault
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.
- Michel Foucault
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Neil Gaiman
It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion.
- Neil Gaiman
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Justin Vernon
I think I've always been aware of it with my music. I think growing up basically and having a lot to deal with and just slowing down and having something to say and something to retract from, I think I just knew that what I was doing was extremely honest.
- Justin Vernon
Collection: Growing Up
Image of John Green
Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.
- John Green
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Neil Gaiman
It’s part of growing up, I suppose…you always have to leave something behind you.
- Neil Gaiman
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Dahlia Lithwick
Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.
- Dahlia Lithwick
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Selena Gomez
I attempt to be who I am and it's fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I'm doing can be a little crazy.
- Selena Gomez
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Ginnifer Goodwin
My grandmother lives on a farm. And growing up, I assumed that the animals that I was eating and the animals that I was wearing all came from farms like my grandmother's. They all had names, they were all smothered with love, and they all lived to be very old.
- Ginnifer Goodwin
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Justin Vernon
I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting.
- Justin Vernon
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Dizzy Gillespie
When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!
- Dizzy Gillespie
Collection: Growing Up
Image of George Foreman
Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school.
- George Foreman
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Morgan Freeman
Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.
- Morgan Freeman
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Jodie Foster
I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.
- Jodie Foster
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Neil Gaiman
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.
- Neil Gaiman
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Selena Gomez
It's hard enough growing up and figuring out who you are and what on earth you wanna be and it doesn't help when people are constantly cutting you down
- Selena Gomez
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Betty Friedan
...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.
- Betty Friedan
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Lev Grossman
The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.
- Lev Grossman
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Selena Gomez
My first big career purchase when I was, like, 17 was a Louis Vuitton laptop bag. Now, seeing the exhibit [Louis Vuitton's "Series 3" exhibition in London], it's exciting because I feel like I kind of know it. It's weird - it's almost like something you grow up with and you just know a little bit about it. Now that I'm immersed in it, it's kind of insane.
- Selena Gomez
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Thomas Friedman
There is definitely global warming, and man is definitely contributing to it. Go out to, say, Montana and talk to some pretty conservative people, hunters and fishermen. They know that in the trout stream they fished when they were growing up, the trout are stressed because the water temperature is going up. They know the hunting season has been delayed because the snows are coming later, and therefore the elk aren't coming down from the mountains.
- Thomas Friedman
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Emma Forrest
Thank God the Internet didn't exist when I was 15, 16. I knew people were tearing me apart, but my God, if there had been a net and commenters and I would have been reading them - it was bad enough as it was. To grow up in the media eye, I'm glad it happened, but that was definitely not healthy being around adults all the time.
- Emma Forrest
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Malcolm Gladwell
We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.
- Malcolm Gladwell
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Billy Graham
Some of the greatest values that have influenced me through the years are those that I learned as a boy growing up on the farm. I remember mostly the love in our family, but I also remember the discipline. Then there was the work; we all had to work.
- Billy Graham
Collection: Growing Up
Image of John Ashbery
The promise of learning is a delusion.... Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint none of us ever graduates from college, for time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate.
- John Ashbery
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Terry Gross
I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Tana French
Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different
- Tana French
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I do feel that even though I didn't grow up being a big sci-fi fan or comic books or superhero fan, I felt myself definitely gravitate towards these movies that have a high concept and yet they're giving you a moral dilemma within that.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Selena Gomez
I do agree to a certain extent that it is unfortunate that I have to be a little more aware of being a kid and growing up and figuring out who I am, but at the same time, it's part of what I love.
- Selena Gomez
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Emily Giffin
We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo
- Emily Giffin
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Melinda Gates
[Bill Gates] wanted me to stay working at Microsoft, but I didn't think he could be CEO and we could have the family life that we both had growing up, which is what we envisioned. I knew I would go back to work at some point later to some profession. I just didn't know what.
- Melinda Gates
Collection: Growing Up
Image of William Gibson
A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It wasn't an aberration, though I realize that in retrospect. I grew up in the part of the U.S. where all of Cormac McCarthy's novels are set and that's a pretty violent place.
- William Gibson
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Neil Gaiman
Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.
- Neil Gaiman
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Kelley Armstrong
I envied it; not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing up in a world where someone cared so much about your happiness and so little about what you accomplished in life.
- Kelley Armstrong
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Michael Gungor
I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.
- Michael Gungor
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Stephen Fry
[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'
- Stephen Fry
Collection: Growing Up
Image of William Gibson
I like living in Vancouver .It's more a matter of being a Vancouver loyalist. Harking back to what I said about growing up with the inherent violence in the southern U.S., I'm deeply enamoured of, and entirely used to living in a society with gun laws akin to those of a Scandinavian social democracy .It's a good thing.
- William Gibson
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Wayne Gretzky
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
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Trevor Noah
I don't even remember hearing about [Immorality Act of 1927]. I just knew about it. I was born into it, so I don't remember my parents ever saying it to me. I don't remember a conversation ever being had around this. I just knew this to be the law because that's what I was growing up in during that time in South Africa.
- Trevor Noah
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Morgan Freeman
I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.
- Morgan Freeman
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Ariana Grande
It's great hearing stories of my mum growing up in Brooklyn, then moving to Florida, having me and growing up with this eccentric, fun family. Although I don't eat a lot of Italian things, because I'm vegan. I was raised on meat and cheese, so I've had enough for anyone's normal life span.
- Ariana Grande
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. On the last trip, I stayed in Europe for one year with $1,000, working everywhere I could, doing everything. Those years shaped me a lot and taught me the value of exploring different things.
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Lights
I never had good hair growing up - just had the worst nothing hair - and until I started being rough with it, even 'til this day I'm actually pretty rough with it, and ever since I've been like that it's been pretty darn good to me.
- Lights
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Curtis Hanson
Initially, it connected with me when I was a kid, seeing a lot of movies while growing up in Los Angeles. And Sam's [Fuller] pictures are an expression of such a distinct voice that he was one of those filmmakers who made me aware that there was, in fact, a real presence behind the camera that was telling the story, as opposed to actors just presenting it.
- Curtis Hanson
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Bill Gates
In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or disease - that they achieve their full potential. We take for Warren [Buffett] things that, because he's very intelligent about the world but doesn't get to go out in Africa and see what we see, we've taken and say to him where we stand and it's basically a very positive report that his gift has made a phenomenal difference.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Chinua Achebe
I think as you grow up and you see things which are around you and you ask questions and you hear the answers, your situation becomes more and more of a puzzle. Now, why is it like this, why are things like this and since writing is one way in which one can ask this questions and try to find these answers, it seems to me a very natural thing to do, especially as it meant stories which I always found moving, almost unbearably necessary.
- Chinua Achebe
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Seth Godin
When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.
- Seth Godin
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Ryan Gosling
I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up -it’s very multicultural. There’s also good health care and a good education system.
- Ryan Gosling
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Bill Gates
It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Growing Up
Image of John Taylor Gatto
What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.
- John Taylor Gatto
Collection: Growing Up