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I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about attitude, vision

I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

Quote by Salma Hayek about city, experience, music, love

I broke in to the business with my ability as a choreographer. Starting with, believe it or not, as a Laker Girl! From that point, my name really grew, and I developed a career as choreographer.

Quote by Paula Abdul about career, ability, name, affair

My favorite artists were Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, the O'Jays - that's what I grew up on. That was my consciousness.

Quote by Paula Abdul about artists, miracle

The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about interest

I grew up as a fairly puritanical, Protestant, football-playing boy in Virginia. I don't know that I've changed very much.

Quote by Warren Beatty about football

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning about time

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Quote by Michael Caine about games, old, olderness, man

It grew very organically. I allowed all these streams to enter the book because they felt as though they needed to.

Quote by Michael Chabon

I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Quote by Glenn Close

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Quote by Bill Gates about dream, chance

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

Quote by Colin Firth about mother

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about time

I just grew out of Ginger Spice but I don't think she will ever completely die. Maybe when I'm a granny I will still be pinching people's bottoms-it's the Spanish in me.

Quote by Geri Halliwell about nation, people

I was amazed at the house that I grew up in; it looks practically identical to the way it was, but I couldn't recognize it because of the size of the trees.

Quote by Jim Fowler about home, house

I grew up around tornadoes in the Midwest and Missouri and Kansas.

Quote by Don Johnson

I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

Quote by George Andrew Olah about education, children, country, world

My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding, my wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.

Quote by George Andrew Olah about research, wife

We grew up in a situation where we didn't know what freedom or justice were, and therefore we didn't know what democracy was.

Quote by Daniel Ortega about justice, democracy

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

Quote by Brad Paisley about depression, dark