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When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
Eddie Murphy
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I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.
Tila Tequila
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Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.


Chris Benz
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Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
Walton Goggins
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I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself.
Laurel Clark
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I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot.
Saul Perlmutter
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?


Eddie Izzard
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I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.


Lily Collins
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Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.
George Foreman
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
Francia Raisa
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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
Barbara Kingsolver
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
Naomie Harris
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I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.


Khloe Kardashian
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I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.


Robert Caro
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I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.


Grace Gummer
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I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.
Lily James
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I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.
Simon Cowell
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I loved being a redhead! I always wanted to try it. I was obsessed with Lucille Ball growing up. I really wanted to try it but I always thought that doing it would ruin my hair.
Tracee Ellis Ross
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Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.


Claire Danes
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