All Quotes

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.
‐‐ George Miller

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.
‐‐ Toby Young

I was once, I think, bitten on the nose by a lion cub.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.
‐‐ Paloma Faith

I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why.
‐‐ Bernard Tschumi

I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
‐‐ Jack McDevitt

I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del.
‐‐ Tom Douglas

I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song.
‐‐ Jill Scott

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!
‐‐ Morton Feldman

I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd.
‐‐ Peter Dinklage

I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.
‐‐ Helena Christensen

I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.
‐‐ Aimee Mullins

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
‐‐ O. Winston Link

I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.
‐‐ Russ Feingold

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!
‐‐ Anthony Minghella

I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.
‐‐ Edward Brooke

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.
‐‐ Janis Ian

I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.
‐‐ Amy Adams

I was one of six kids in a single-parent household.
‐‐ America Ferrera

I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all her kids would turn up and live with us.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

I was one of the actors in 'Braveheart,' and that had a huge impact on the political scene in Scotland. One of the results of that, in 2014 there's going to be a referendum in Scotland as to whether Scotland is going to be independent. A great deal of that was brought to the nation as a result of 'Braveheart.'
‐‐ James Cosmo

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.
‐‐ Michael Moore

I was one of the first actors in London to be seen for Frodo ten years ago. I didn't get it, obviously. The right size, but too handsome, apparently.
‐‐ Tom Hollander

I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.
‐‐ Soulja Boy

I was one of the first artists to make a buzz about '106 & Park.' If it wasn't for that show, I wouldn't be the entertainer that I am today.
‐‐ Bow Wow

I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.
‐‐ Jodi Picoult

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
‐‐ Tom Clancy

I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.
‐‐ Rod Taylor

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either for us or for them, and I'm certainly the only well-known Arab who writes these things - and who writes exactly the same things in the Arab press that I say here.
‐‐ Edward Said

I was one of the first people to join Facebook in February of 2004, and launched one of the inaugural applications on the platform in May 2007.
‐‐ Joe Green

I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.
‐‐ Pierre Salinger

I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone - in a purely white hat sort of way. But if you don't trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.
‐‐ John McAfee

I was one of the first six black kids to integrate a formerly all-white school. I remember being looked at all the time and people laughing at my hair. I was also very self-conscious about the food I had for lunch. I had egg sandwiches, and the other mothers gave kids fancy stuff like bologna and Marmite. It took about a year to settle in.
‐‐ Petina Gappah

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.
‐‐ Gil Scott-Heron

I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.
‐‐ Leslie Moonves

I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.
‐‐ Pauly Shore

I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
‐‐ Betty White

I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock.
‐‐ Arthur Rock

I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don't like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I've been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I'll hold his feet to the fire just as much.
‐‐ Glenn Beck

I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy.
‐‐ Luise Rainer

I was one of the key people responsible for building Facebook's News Feed. When we launched it in 2006, users hated it. There were 'I Hate Facebook' groups; random people organized protests. We even hired a security team.
‐‐ Ruchi Sanghvi

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.
‐‐ Tea Leoni

I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
‐‐ Sam Riley

I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.
‐‐ Ian Anthony Dale

I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.
‐‐ Reba McEntire

I was one of the worst attorneys. I didn't enjoy law.
‐‐ Brian Lee

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
‐‐ Imelda May