I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.
‐‐ Josh Groban
I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.
‐‐ Peter Camejo
I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.
‐‐ Jerry Mathers
I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.
‐‐ John Cameron
I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several programs including one that provide our film finishing fund. So we help women complete their films with a grant from Netflix. It's great to be associated with award winning films like 'Freeheld' and 'Circumstance'.
‐‐ Sharon Lawrence
I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon. We had a $5 trillion surplus and we cut taxes.
‐‐ John Kasich
I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.
‐‐ Stuart Rose
I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey.
‐‐ Joseph M. Kyrillos
I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer clothes.
‐‐ Roz Savage
I was the child who would leave school and take her clothes off the second I got into the house. I made my mom buy me lingerie when I was 5 years old. I was a sicko. My mother must have been mortified.
‐‐ Alessandra Torresani
I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.
‐‐ Carrot Top
I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.
‐‐ Dominic Monaghan
I was the class clown type of guy.
‐‐ Bobb'e J. Thompson
I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke
I was the class innuendist.
‐‐ Michael Feldman
I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would examine feet and prescribe and ointment. It was a sad childhood.
‐‐ Gilbert Gottfried
I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.
‐‐ Stephen Moyer
I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.
‐‐ Chiwetel Ejiofor
I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.
‐‐ Michel Patini
I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.
‐‐ Susan Howatch
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
‐‐ Harriet Tubman
I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success.
‐‐ Susan Choi
I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.
‐‐ Amy Poehler
I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.
‐‐ Kamisese Mara
I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.
‐‐ Amy Adams
I was the editor of the 'News of the World;' I was the editor of the 'Sun' and chief executive.
‐‐ Rebekah Brooks
I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.
‐‐ Tina Fey
I was the eldest child, so I know how it feels to have attention shared with a sibling.
‐‐ Suriya
I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine.
‐‐ Sadie Frost
I was the epitome of rags to riches.
‐‐ Jason Mitchell
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.
‐‐ Jane Haddam
I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
‐‐ Laura Wade
I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.
‐‐ Shelley Hennig
I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.
‐‐ Peter DeLuise
I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
‐‐ Billy Bob Thornton
I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.
‐‐ Eliza Coupe
I was the feral, mud-bathing, tree-climbing variety of child. Why would I want to read about pirates when I could build a raft and terrorise sheep along the riverbanks?
‐‐ Sarah Hall
I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!
‐‐ Eva Gabor
I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
‐‐ Jaclyn Smith
I was the first advertising person who people could identify with.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina
I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.
‐‐ Tamara Tunie
I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.
‐‐ M. J. Hyland
I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
‐‐ Gary Wright
I was the first athlete, from a training standpoint, with Adidas to have their own signature shoe.
‐‐ Keyshawn Johnson
I was the first blogger on the 'Times''s website. That happened during the Iraq war, when I wanted an outlet for the things I was seeing every day that couldn't fit into just two columns a week. Then I became interested in using multimedia, specifically as a way to engage young people.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof
I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.
‐‐ Roy Blunt
I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.
‐‐ Mark Kennedy
I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
‐‐ N. R. Narayana Murthy
I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
‐‐ Al Sharpton