All Quotes

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.
‐‐ Claire McCaskill

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.
‐‐ Christine Pelosi

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.
‐‐ Ted Turner

When I was a punk teenager, I rebelled because lots of people in Iceland think that foreigners are evil and that if you don't wear woolen hats and eat sheep, you're betraying your heritage.
‐‐ Bjork

When I was a rapper, the groupies didn't have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel.
‐‐ Mark Wahlberg

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.
‐‐ Charlie Crist

When I was a school kid, I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing. I would make my own comics about my teddy bear, whose name happened to be Ted.
‐‐ Marcel Dzama

When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.
‐‐ Jerry Dammers

When I was a schoolkid, I went to Castleton quite a few times. We'd be there studying rocks, going down these big hills. It was a great place!
‐‐ Jamie Oliver

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.
‐‐ James Frey

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.
‐‐ Pope Francis

When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.
‐‐ Jacob Artist

When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I went way out to the west coast of Ireland and rented a little house by myself.
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney

When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.
‐‐ Claire McCaskill

When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song on the radio, it was a jolt of electricity. It grabbed me by the throat, it made me shiver. And I knew from that moment that this was for me and this would be with me for the rest of my life.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie

When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else.
‐‐ Robert Reich

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.
‐‐ Bill James

When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.
‐‐ John Wayne

When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer had the funds to pay for college. If I wanted to continue, I would have to do it on my own.
‐‐ Terry J. Lundgren

When I was a student and rushing to finish a project, my gut instinct was usually to keep adding all kinds of features. It's a way of papering over the fact that you haven't quite nailed your concept yet.
‐‐ Mike Krieger

When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.
‐‐ John Katzman

When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.
‐‐ Jane Green

When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
‐‐ John Lewis

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.
‐‐ Steve Coogan

When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation.
‐‐ Renzo Piano

When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.
‐‐ Paul Davies

When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individuality were slowly returning after the austere, colorless low of the 1970s. When I returned to live in China from 2005 to 2013, the country was building everything anew.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
‐‐ Norman MacCaig

When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
‐‐ Maggie Stiefvater

When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.
‐‐ Sarah Dessen

When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
‐‐ Morgan Freeman

When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school.
‐‐ Mary Pope Osborne

When I was a teenager, I did a lot of pull-ups and push-ups. Every night before bed, I'd do 150 - in sets of 30 or so. Looking back on it now, I'm not totally sure that's the best way to improve as a climber. But it did make me a lot better at doing pull-ups and push-ups.
‐‐ Alex Honnold

When I was a teenager, I did one animated series back when I was on 'General Hospital.' It was 1971 or '72. Then I didn't do animation until 'Batman.'
‐‐ Mark Hamill

When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.
‐‐ George Stephen

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'
‐‐ Imelda May

When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought they were looking at my pimples. I put mud on my face to dry them out, and it worked.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen

When I was a teenager I hated having Bloomberg as a last name and being seen simply as someone's daughter. I used to shy away from it in every way. As I got older, I began to realize that it was something I could use to make a difference in the causes I cared about. I learned to be proud of my last name.
‐‐ Georgina Bloomberg

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.
‐‐ Melanie Mayron

When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions.
‐‐ Robert Krulwich

When I was a teenager, I met a comedian who I admired, and he was very rude to me. That's why when people come up to me I try not to be rude. I don't want to name who he is, but it really put me off watching his stuff since.
‐‐ Stephen Merchant

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
‐‐ Dario Argento

When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.
‐‐ Ian Anderson

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream when I was a girl was I would be hired by 'National Geographic' or work with David Attenborough, but it didn't happen. I became a model.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.
‐‐ Audrey Tautou

When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.
‐‐ Jocelyn Moorhouse

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish.
‐‐ Fred Gwynne

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.
‐‐ Iwan Rheon

When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp.
‐‐ Graham Moore

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.
‐‐ Colin Wilson

When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
‐‐ Adam DeVine

When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.
‐‐ Noomi Rapace

When I was a teenager, I was really into hair; I dyed it different colours and had loads of haircuts. I shaved my head when I was 17 - it was pretty radical!
‐‐ Chloe Sevigny

When I was a teenager, I went on an organised three-day tour of Rome. It was the worst experience ever. I promised myself that I would never travel like that again, with someone telling you what to see and what not to see.
‐‐ Diego Luna

When I was a teenager, I went to Europe on a backpacking trip by myself, and I met a woman who was following Sebadoh. It was the early 1990s, and that was my introduction to indie rock.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and soul-sucking.
‐‐ Constance Wu

When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.
‐‐ Aaron Sanchez

When I was a teenager, I would have tried anything that an actress I liked was doing to get thin.
‐‐ Anne Hathaway

When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.
‐‐ Aleksa Palladino

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
‐‐ Bjork

When I was a teenager in Milwaukee in the 1980s, life was pretty boring, and I found myself riveted by the sheer melodrama of everyday life of the 1960s.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.
‐‐ Steve Vai

When I was a teenager in the late 30's and early 40's, electronics wasn't a word. You were interested in radio if you were interested in electronics.
‐‐ Ken Olsen