All Quotes

As a journalist, you have to have multiple sources and verifiable science, and when you've done that and satisfied the most skeptical voice in your head, you have an obligation to ride through the streets - let people know what's going on.
‐‐ Josh Fox

As a judge, I held people accountable when they did wrong. That's why I cracked down on violent criminals and stopped the big banks when they tried to kick families out of their homes.
‐‐ Ann Callis

As a judge, when I saw veterans in legal trouble, I created the state's first veterans court to help them get treatment and get back on their feet.
‐‐ Ann Callis

As a jumper, I try to defy gravity as long as I can. But no matter how far I jump, I'll always hit the earth eventually.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.
‐‐ Jonathan Demme

As a kid, all I thought about was death.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

As a kid, all I wanted to do was be in a Viking film.
‐‐ Craig Fairbrass

As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
‐‐ Rachel Hurd-Wood

As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.
‐‐ Bill Nye

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
‐‐ Garth Brooks

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.
‐‐ Rodman Philbrick

As a kid, creation was something that I always loved. Creating worlds for video games, creating businesses that didn't make any money, selling lemonade, etcetera. In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.
‐‐ Kevin Systrom

As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.
‐‐ Virat Kohli

As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton

As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.
‐‐ Jack Reynor

As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.
‐‐ Nate Robinson

As a kid growing up, I was never like, 'I want to go to the Olympics,' so having to pass on 2012 because I was too young didn't bother me at all.
‐‐ Simone Biles

As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me.
‐‐ Robert Osborne

As a kid growing up in Southern California, I was a frequent visitor to the Disneyland and developed a deep love of the magic and wonder of Disney.
‐‐ Kidada Jones

As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.
‐‐ Robbie Keane

As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be.
‐‐ Ron Francis

As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always something like, 'If I was a slave, I wouldn't have been putting up with that. I would have been out in a heartbeat.' And it's like, sure, it's a very easy thing to say.
‐‐ Sterling K. Brown

As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.
‐‐ Ben Silbermann

As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

As a kid, I always looked up to supermodels, thinking about how amazing they are. I always wanted to be in photos.
‐‐ Kendall Jenner

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters.
‐‐ Mindy Kaling

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.
‐‐ Caroline Rhea

As a kid, I always wanted to be like Spielberg and to make wonderful movies. Even when I was making 'Indiana Jones,' I was looking at how he would come up with these amazing shots and how he would choreograph the blocking and all that. So I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.
‐‐ Jonathan Ke Quan

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.
‐‐ Jonathan Winters

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.
‐‐ David Blaine

As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.
‐‐ Pete Wentz

As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
‐‐ Al Yankovic

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.
‐‐ Jean Pigozzi

As a kid, I'd eat at my mother's house, then go down the road to my girlfriend's and eat, and then sometimes go to my friend's house and eat again. I could gain five pounds in a day. In a week, there wouldn't be a scale to weigh me.
‐‐ Bruce Smith

As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.
‐‐ Irv Kupcinet

As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.
‐‐ Adam Sandler

As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

As a kid, I'd never have avocado. You'd get some melon and the odd fresh peach. But avocados? Mangoes? I'd never had a mango in my life.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

As a kid, I'd watch MTV and think how great it would be to have my own music videos on those shows. Now I turn on MTV and, along the bottom of the screen, it often reads, 'Coming next... Pixie Lott.' That's so strange that I can't even begin to make sense of it.
‐‐ Pixie Lott

As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.
‐‐ Ryan Gosling

As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom took us all the time to the ocean, so I grew up doing open-water swimming in the Atlantic.
‐‐ Alice Dreger

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.
‐‐ Tom Waits

As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade science fiction novel that became 'The Boy at the End of the World,' it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark vision of the future. In my book, civilization has nearly destroyed itself.
‐‐ Greg van Eekhout

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
‐‐ Samantha Fox