![I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-did-not-write-it-coming-of-age-in-samoa-as-a-popular-book-but-only-with-the.jpg)
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I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore. Ryan Lochte
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Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing. Tyler Perry
growing-up want honest
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen. Richard M. Nixon
growing-up police groups
I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group. Tracy Morgan
growing-up thinking accepting
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. Robert Smith
growing-up school acting
Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor. Sara Paxton
growing-up writing loss
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe. Sara Paretsky
growing-up kids thinking
I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention. Sandra Bernhard
growing-up college musical
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Health: thank the universe for your own healing. Laugh, stress free happiness will keep you healthy. Rhonda Byrne
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If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich. Eric Ries
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At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that's precisely the point. Nhat Hanh
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I want to stress that at no time Bolivia acts untimely or irresponsibly. Evo Morales
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For me, working out is nothing to do with looks. It's to let it all out - the stress, the self-consciousness - you think less; it makes you more centred. Eva Green
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I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes. Mohamed ElBaradei
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Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited. James Patterson
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I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it. William Rehnquist
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I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. Lord Byron
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