All Quotes

From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.
‐‐ Richard Foreman

From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.
‐‐ Ada Yonath

From the age of 12, I had an understanding that singing was something I loved to do more than anything, and I did say to myself, 'Why not?' But there were definitely some doubts along the way.
‐‐ Patty Griffin

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.
‐‐ David Gross

From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.
‐‐ Calvin Harris

From the age of 4 or 5, I loved to make people laugh.
‐‐ David Walton

From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in '72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn't stop when you stop skiing.
‐‐ Ivana Trump

From the age of 8, I learned that nothing in the entertainment industry is real. It's all fake. Your face, your clothes, what you say - it's all a fake.
‐‐ Mike Lookinland

From the age of 8, I was running media campaigns on global issues back home in Australia. I was ever so slightly precocious. I would meet with senior Australian government officials, including the prime minister and foreign minister, proposing various solutions to third-world debt and malnutrition.
‐‐ Jeremy Heimans

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.
‐‐ Joseph Fiennes

From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
‐‐ M. J. Hyland

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
‐‐ John Henry Newman

From the age of five, I was organizing everybody's everything. If I didn't like the way it looked, I'd rearrange it. From a very early age, I saw life from my point of view.
‐‐ Anouska Hempel

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.
‐‐ Gugu Mbatha-Raw

From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.
‐‐ Bill Mumy

From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.
‐‐ Reynolds Price

From the age of three to 15, I wanted to be a ballerina and trained really, really hard. Then I had that classic movie story moment, where I had an injury and had to give up my dream.
‐‐ Kiesza

From the ages of five to twelve, I attended the Saint Laurence O'Toole elementary school in Lawrence, a city next to Methuen, and was taught by sisters of the Catholic order of Notre Dame de Namour. I enjoyed all my subjects there. I do not remember ever learning any science, except for mathematics.
‐‐ Elias James Corey

From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
‐‐ Frances O'Grady

From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the leader in the dance of life; and the phrase by which we name his singularity, the poetic temperament, denotes the primacy of that passion in his blood with which the frame of other men is less richly charged.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry

From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal reach.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.
‐‐ Robert Casey

From the beginning, I got all Emirates cabin crew applicants psychometrically tested. Those who didn't want to be nice to others got rejected.
‐‐ Maurice Flanagan

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.
‐‐ Eric Clapton

From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh.
‐‐ Issey Miyake

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.
‐‐ Alicia Keys

From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have.
‐‐ Mark Pincus

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
‐‐ Ella Maillart

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.
‐‐ Beth Orton

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
‐‐ Nina Simone

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.
‐‐ Patricia Heaton

From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
‐‐ Charles Sumner

From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band.
‐‐ Brian May

From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.
‐‐ Michael Beschloss

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.
‐‐ Ernest Lawrence

From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
‐‐ Charles Koch

From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.
‐‐ Henry Paulson

From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.
‐‐ Lynn Collins

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.
‐‐ Rupert Murdoch

From the beginning, our community has been focused on people outside of Christianity. But that emphasis means that a lot of hard work is represented in every person who is baptized.
‐‐ Erwin McManus

From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.
‐‐ M. Stanton Evans

From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has presented very difficult challenges.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

From the beginning, the Mac has been about Apple taking responsibility for the whole thing: hardware, software, how applications can work, and, increasingly, Internet services.
‐‐ Phil Schiller