I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
Growing up as a South Asian-American, I didn't have any female role models.
There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.
I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.
I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.
Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.
I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.
I started up this program here in Bermuda, working with what society deems under-privileged kids, at-risk kids.
I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
I was that little kid: I was the one that was looking up to athletes and getting to see them and getting to be a part of it, and I remember those experiences.
Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.
I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
