Al Franken Quotes, Growing Up Quotes, Government Quotes

When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.

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I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.

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When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

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Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Children Quotes , Growing Up Quotes

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Children Quotes , Growing Up Quotes

My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.

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I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

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Tags : Alan Ritchson Quotes , Baseball Quotes , Growing Up Quotes

We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But know that it's still there.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Giving Up Quotes , Growing Up Quotes

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

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To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Life Quotes , Growing Up Quotes

So my biggest fun has been watching my daughters grow up. Now, unfortunately they're hitting the age where they still love me, but they think I'm completely boring. And so they'll come in, pat me on the head, talk to me for 10 minutes, and then they're gone all weekend. Right? They break my heart! So now I've got to start thinking, Well what's going to replace that fun?

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No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

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Tags : Aimee Teegarden Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Teenager Quotes

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fashion Quotes , Growing Up Quotes

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Expression Quotes

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Happy Birthday Quotes , Growing Up Quotes

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , People Quotes

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

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We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Ignorance Quotes