Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
‐‐ Ellen DeGeneres
Even before I really started, no one said I would make it. But I always had belief.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford
Even before I was discovered in 1966, I used to make my own clothes. I learned how to sew early on, and it's still my passion now. I constantly have ideas in my head about clothes so jumped at the chance to do my own collection and am very hands-on. Everything I design, I wear and I love.
‐‐ Twiggy
Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
‐‐ Madeleine Albright
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara
Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film.
‐‐ Duncan Jones
Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
‐‐ Ian Hart
Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.
‐‐ Mikhail Prokhorov
Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
‐‐ Rand Paul
Even before September 11, there was a debate in the administration about whether or not military force should be used to oust Saddam Hussein. You're not going to find one person in the top echelons of the foreign policy and national security establishment in the U.S. government who's going to say that Saddam Hussein should not be out of power.
‐‐ Elaine Sciolino
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.
‐‐ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they're going to tell you I've been DJ Khaled my whole life.
‐‐ DJ Khaled
Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
‐‐ Edward Witten
Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.
‐‐ Catherine Helen Spence
Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson
Even before the expansion of slave labor in the South and into the West, slavery was already an important source of northern profit, as was the already exploding slave trade in the Caribbean and South America. Banks capitalized the slave trade, and insurance companies underwrote it.
‐‐ Greg Grandin
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose
Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.
‐‐ Ken Jennings
Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.
‐‐ Andrzej Wajda
Even between the best of friends, mistakes and misunderstandings can happen.
‐‐ Avigdor Lieberman
Even boredom has its crises.
‐‐ Mason Cooley
Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.
‐‐ Chloe Sevigny
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.
‐‐ Ray Kurzweil
Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.
‐‐ Rod Stewart
Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.
‐‐ Robert Quine
Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
‐‐ Jimi Hendrix
Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.
‐‐ Richard Morris
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
‐‐ Mason Cooley
Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.
‐‐ Matt Stone
Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.
‐‐ Teddy Sheringham
Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.
‐‐ Christopher McDougall
Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley
Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.
‐‐ Sally Quinn
Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.
‐‐ Donna Mills
Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
‐‐ Barton Gellman
Even cooking at home, the difference between my wife cooking and me cooking is major. When my wife cooks, the kitchen looks like a disaster. When I cook it's completely clean and organized and it doesn't look like anyone has been cooking in there.
‐‐ Tom Colicchio
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
‐‐ Mignon McLaughlin
Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.
‐‐ Joe Elliott
Even criticism is more interesting when the writer's authority does not only come through this omniscient narrator, but through questions, ambivalence, vulnerability. A mind questioning and on the move, not just settling down and declaring - that's one of the most interesting possibilities.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
‐‐ Germaine Greer
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
‐‐ Buddha
Even Democrats were donating to me.
‐‐ Paul Nehlen
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
‐‐ Alison Bechdel
Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton
Even during my injury, I had fun because I got to be a regular college kid.
‐‐ Kyrie Irving
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
‐‐ Ed Smith
Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.
‐‐ James Earl Jones
Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.
‐‐ Armstrong Williams
Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin