All Quotes

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.
‐‐ Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume.
‐‐ Greg Lynn

Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have got to make sure that large, profitable corporations are paying their fair share of taxes.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.
‐‐ Rose George

Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again.
‐‐ Rob James-Collier

Before dance came into my life, I don't really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything.
‐‐ Misty Copeland

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.
‐‐ Bill Copeland

Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

Before digital and mobile communications effectively tethered us to an invisible, infinite 'wire,' even those with the most hectic schedules were usually willing to answer the phone if they happened to be home when it rang.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

Before 'Dilbert,' I tried to become a computer programmer. In the early days of computing, I bought this big, heavy, portable computer for my house. I spent two years nights and weekends trying to write games that I thought I would sell. Turns out I'm not that good a programmer, so that was two years that didn't work out.
‐‐ Scott Adams

Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
‐‐ Gary Sinise

Before Disney, I did other shows so I was aware of the business. They're all the same in that they're a professional environment. The only difference between a Disney show and other network shows are in the age of the actors you're working with and the age of the intended audience.
‐‐ David Henrie

Before doing fieldwork in Middle Egypt, I analyzed satellite imagery to determine exactly where I wanted to go. Within three weeks, I found about 70 sites. If I had approached this as a traditional foot survey, it would have taken me three and a half years.
‐‐ Sarah Parcak

Before doing 'Midnight's Children,' I didn't really have a chance to explore my Indian side. The Indian side of my heritage was always present, but it did not particularly define my identity. Being English was more an identity-defining status. I was born and brought up in London. Yes, my father is Parsi.
‐‐ Satya Bhabha

Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, 'This is where I wanna be.'
‐‐ Patton Oswalt

Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.
‐‐ Talib Kweli

Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.
‐‐ Bethany McLean

Before 'Entourage,' I couldn't get a sitcom.
‐‐ Kevin Dillon

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.
‐‐ Nigel Farage

Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for.
‐‐ Dwyane Wade

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards - a massive star.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

Before every performance I feel nervous.
‐‐ Diego Boneta

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.
‐‐ Brenda Blethyn

Before every show, I eat half a rotisserie chicken.
‐‐ John Legend

Before every show, I have to put perfume on. I know the crowd's not necessarily going to smell me, but when I smell good, I feel like I can dominate the room.
‐‐ Rita Ora

Before every show, I would call my mother and say, 'Mummy, I don't know how I will sing today.' But that would change as soon as I went on stage and would merge with my music. She is my best ally, and I don't want to lose her. Nobody other than her would be concerned if I had eaten or had oiled my hair. She is my queen.
‐‐ Sonu Nigam

Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
‐‐ Flea

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
‐‐ Henry Ford

Before 'Fallen,' I'd written love stories and more love stories. I'd fallen in love with love stories - but they were also beginning to feel just a little bit too insular, too small.
‐‐ Lauren Kate

Before 'Final Fantasy VII,' I would have told you that I had zero interest in RPGs with turn-based combat. But that game was so well done, I didn't care what genre it was. Any genre can be done poorly or done well.
‐‐ Tim Schafer

Before finding a mentor, I feel it's essential to really find your own calling and passion. From my experience, this will become a guiding bond in this kind of relationship. Be curious and engaged - and push yourself actively. Be as good as you can at what you love to do, and you will certainly get a mentor's attention.
‐‐ Raney Aronson-Rath

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.
‐‐ Kevin Bacon

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
‐‐ Isabelle Adjani

Before 'Fringe' I was in 'Dirty Sexy Money' playing Jeremy Darling who was this bratty New York socialite.
‐‐ Seth Gabel

Before games, people ask whether I get nervous. To be honest, I don't get nervous, I just enjoy it. I am living the dream. When I was a kid I always wanted to play for my country and now I am here, I will enjoy it.
‐‐ Jermain Defoe

Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.
‐‐ Psy

Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.
‐‐ Petra Stunt

Before 'Giant,' I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Baldwin in readings. It's really exciting to be blessed with the opportunity to work with so many I would put in the 'genius' book.
‐‐ Aaron Lazar

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.
‐‐ Fleur East

Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.
‐‐ George Packer

Before Google, I spent the summer building a program that would look at what websites you would go to and what websites other people would go to - and built a collaborative filtering program that helped you find related sites to look at.
‐‐ Marissa Mayer

Before GoPro, if you wanted to have any footage of yourself doing anything, whether it's video or photo, you not only needed a camera, you needed another human being. And if you wanted the footage to be good, you needed that other human being to have skill with the camera.
‐‐ Nick Woodman

Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.
‐‐ Maxwell Caulfield

Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.
‐‐ Zach Galligan

Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
‐‐ Chandra Wilson

Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.
‐‐ Dick Bruna

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
‐‐ Tatyana Ali