All Quotes

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.
‐‐ Dita Von Teese

As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day, and be able to inspire young black girls everywhere, to go into Macy's or Nordstrom's and see their face staring back at them - I wouldn't believe them.
‐‐ Nicki Minaj

As a little girl I always dreamed of having a cosmetics contract, which was the cherry on top of 'making it' in my opinion.
‐‐ Paula Patton

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
‐‐ A. S. Byatt

As a little girl, I got to meet Audrey Hepburn, who took my face in her hands and suddenly make me want to be an actress.
‐‐ Stephanie Zimbalist

As a little girl, I had huge fantasies about music.
‐‐ Lou Doillon

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.
‐‐ Denise Richards

As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.
‐‐ Mandy Moore

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.
‐‐ Christine Keeler

As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.
‐‐ Bar Refaeli

As a little girl, I was athletic: 'Oh, mom, look at me. I can do cartwheels.' I was one of those annoying kids. I craved the spotlight. I had the feeling since I was little that the stage was my home.
‐‐ Ashley Leggat

As a little girl in Arizona, none of the women in my family had a cultural connection with Girl Scouts, but the opportunity resonated with my mother as a platform that would allow me to excel in school.
‐‐ Anna Maria Chavez

As a little girl in the '50s, I couldn't wear a purple-and-white flowered skirt with a red blouse - those colors were too loud. My parents were not into that 'We are Negros that wear all beige,' but there was a line you could walk over that could signal vulgar, crass, rather than clever use of color. And that outfit crossed over the line.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.
‐‐ Lily Collins

As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother... The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out, and I knew that that is what I wanted to do - be fabulous and black and on TV.
‐‐ Niecy Nash

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
‐‐ Felix Baumgartner

As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.
‐‐ Dick Dale

As a little kid, I suppose I was a little weird.
‐‐ Susan Olsen

As a little kid, I used to lock myself in my room and put on my Whitney Houston CD's and pretend to be her and try and hit every single note that she hit. I used to dream that one day that would be me.
‐‐ Ricki-Lee Coulter

As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy.
‐‐ Ruby Rose

As a little kid, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson.
‐‐ James Bay

As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making them, seeing them - is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me. That puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy - love, family, food, movies.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.
‐‐ Brian J. White

As a little kid when I would watch 'Monty Python'... that would just blow me away because it was just so silly and absurd, but so intelligent, and I loved that.
‐‐ Reggie Watts

As a Liverpool fan, I'm an eternal optimist because of what we did in Istanbul in 2005.
‐‐ Katarina Johnson-Thompson

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.
‐‐ Peter Ackroyd

As a long-time registered Democrat who started voting in the year of Watergate, I resent being taken for a ride to the place where anything goes and nothing matters. And especially where nothing matters less than clear thinking and straight talk.
‐‐ James Howard Kunstler

As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

As a longtime fashion enthusiast and the architect of the YMCMB lifestyle, it makes perfect sense to partner with the esteemed Bravado and move into fashion and launch my apparel brands.
‐‐ Birdman

As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

As a longtime political operative, I know firsthand how a vote here or a vote there can make a huge difference in a close election.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.
‐‐ Joe Rogan

As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.
‐‐ Dan Levitan

As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

As a lyricist, I'm really trying to raise my level of quality.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts.
‐‐ Alicia Keys

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.
‐‐ Adolph Green

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.
‐‐ Michelle Bachelet

As a makeup artist, I learned quickly that the color of your lips affects the way a lipstick looks. If you see your friend wearing a great color, don't assume it will be right for you.
‐‐ Bobbi Brown

As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
‐‐ Edgardo Osorio

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
‐‐ Gao Xingjian

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.
‐‐ Ross MacDonald

As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the Lord, and he will set his heart upon the things of this world.
‐‐ Heber J. Grant

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
‐‐ James Madison

As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so may a man be born with certain faculties within him, faculties belonging to the soul, which he can develop by training and by discipline.
‐‐ Annie Besant

As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by reading descriptions written by travelers who have been there, so may he visit the super-physical realms if he will but qualify himself therefor, or he may learn what others who have so qualified themselves report as a result of their investigations.
‐‐ Max Heindel

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.
‐‐ Bob Marley

As a man, there's a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day's work.
‐‐ Ray Winstone