All Quotes

Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
‐‐ Talib Kweli

Even an unsuccessful Olympic bid can be the source of change within a city if organizers adhere to their vision.
‐‐ Richard Attias

Even arch-isolationists, such as former President Herbert Hoover and Senator Robert Taft of Ohio - two of the most right-wing figures in the Republican Party - insisted on being called liberal.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
‐‐ Nate Berkus

Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I got older, it became clearer that there are things that I can do and choices I can make.
‐‐ Mayim Bialik

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
‐‐ Eartha Kitt

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
‐‐ Nicole Kidman

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
‐‐ Patti Smith

Even as a child, I told my whole family how to improve their looks.
‐‐ Jil Sander

Even as a child, when kids my age would watch cartoons, I preferred watching horror flicks. I had watched some Hollywood horror flicks and even films made by the Ramsay brothers by the time I was six! I have always been biased towards that genre.
‐‐ Emraan Hashmi

Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man, and he was my brother.
‐‐ Mona Simpson

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.
‐‐ Eric Cantona

Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
‐‐ Randall Park

Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.
‐‐ Candace Bushnell

Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.
‐‐ Neil Peart

Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
‐‐ Pamela Anderson

Even as a kid, I saw the world in my own way and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
‐‐ Adam DeVine

Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.
‐‐ Richard LaGravenese

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.
‐‐ Andrew Stanton

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn't want anybody's name on my backside. I personally don't like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone's likeness all over it.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey

Even as a kid, I would always imagine horrible circumstances in which I would find myself in my head, and imagine how I would feel, and act it out a bit for myself, because I was a bit of a freak like that. I love doing things like that, and I get a real buzz from it afterwards.
‐‐ Laura Fraser

Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.
‐‐ Scott Ian

Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.
‐‐ Damien Hirst

Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.
‐‐ Kenneth Kamler

Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.
‐‐ Etta James

Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins

Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
‐‐ Ed Gillespie

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.
‐‐ Dwayne Hickman

Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni

Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.
‐‐ Anne Graham Lotz

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.
‐‐ Valentino Garavani

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.
‐‐ Bing Gordon

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
‐‐ Jake Gyllenhaal

Even as China's growth slows, it will continue to be a powerhouse for the global economy.
‐‐ George Osborne

Even as economic and political freedoms have advanced enormously and generated huge benefits for humanity, they've also created a great deal of anxiety because every time you have to make a choice, there's anxiety about making the wrong one.
‐‐ Scott Stossel

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.
‐‐ Jennifer Lawrence

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.
‐‐ Dewitt Bodeen

Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots.
‐‐ Alex Shoumatoff

Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman.
‐‐ Anne Fortier

Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.
‐‐ Barbara Jordan

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.
‐‐ Adam Christopher

Even as Jews and Christians profoundly disagree about the truth, they are united in the belief that there is a truth to be sought.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
‐‐ Ron Taffel

Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.
‐‐ Ramana Maharshi