I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.
‐‐ Pierre Omidyar
I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed back because it wasn't the right time.
‐‐ Tim Howard
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.
‐‐ Bill Walton
I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.
‐‐ Grant Hill
I had the opportunity of making necropsies on patients dead from malignant fever and of studying the melanaemia, i.e., the formation of black pigment in the blood of patients affected by malaria.
‐‐ Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.
‐‐ Bob Seger
I had the opportunity to do a movie with Roger Daltrey of The Who. In the movie, I played a guitar student. Since I had to learn how to play somewhat for the movie, I was introduced to the guitar.
‐‐ Drake Bell
I had the opportunity to do what I enjoy.
‐‐ Haywood Nelson
I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.
‐‐ Manika
I had the opportunity to go cast for a Hollywood film that was filming in Thailand called 'Mortal Kombat 2.' Out of 100 people, I was cast to be the stunt double for Robin Shou.
‐‐ Tony Jaa
I had the opportunity to go into the hospitals and talk to kids and see a kid and make him smile. Why? Because I'm a special person? No. It had nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with me being the quarterback at the University of Florida. And to not take advantage of that is a shame.
‐‐ Tim Tebow
I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.
‐‐ Curtis Stone
I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.
‐‐ Pedro Martinez
I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
‐‐ Baba Kalyani
I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I'd get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o'clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning.
‐‐ Curt Schilling
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.
‐‐ Nolan Ryan
I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends.
‐‐ James Arness
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch
I had the privilege of playing an angel on 'Touched by an Angel' for many years - almost two decades, and we would deliver a message on the show. The message was that God loves them, and before filming every scene, we would come together and pray.
‐‐ Roma Downey
I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
‐‐ Ron Paul
I had the privilege of working with so many great actors over the years.
‐‐ James Arness
I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.
‐‐ Luther Allison
I had the question asked of me before, 'What do you like better: singing or playing guitar?' If I'm gonna be totally truthful, if that microphone's in my hand, I'm loving it. When the guitar's in my hand, I'm a little nervous, but I'm still loving it.
‐‐ Phil Anselmo
I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
‐‐ Ron White
I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro
I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.
‐‐ Cybill Shepherd
I had the sets that meant so much to this character built - right in my home, especially the kitchen, which was important both for her character and for your introduction to her when Albert comes to visit.
‐‐ Debbie Reynolds
I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.
‐‐ Paul Thomas Anderson
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
‐‐ Edith Wharton
I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.
‐‐ Elvis Stojko
I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'
‐‐ Gabriel E. Gomez
I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
‐‐ Malachy McCourt
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.
‐‐ Leonard Cohen
I had the traditional print view of TV journalists: Those are pretty people who get paid a lot of money and don't do any work. It turned out I was wrong.
‐‐ John King
I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom
I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which is a great mistake. It's never personal: It's just business. It was ever thus.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff
I had the 'War of the Worlds' comic book. I had lots of comic books.
‐‐ Roky Erickson
I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides. And these ponies are never in good health. But this one dropped dead. It just wasn't much fun after that. One kid would sit on him and the rest of us would drag him around.
‐‐ Rita Rudner
I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
‐‐ Ralph Bakshi
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
‐‐ Peter Hammill
I had therefore, no hesitation in giving all the information I had, even though occasionally I tried to concentrate mainly on giving information about the results of my own work.
‐‐ Klaus Fuchs
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
‐‐ Immanuel Kant
I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
‐‐ Harmony Korine
I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.
‐‐ Charlize Theron
I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!
‐‐ Mindy Kaling
I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?
‐‐ Emeril Lagasse
I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.
‐‐ Bobby Darin
I had thirty weeks of prep on 'Captain America.' I have a small team of qualified, supportive, creative producers who are actually helping me achieve my vision of the film. I had a dream cast headed by Chris Evans. I had the best designers, artists, sculptors, craftspeople.
‐‐ Joe Johnston
I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.
‐‐ Rod Stewart