All Quotes

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.
‐‐ Chiaki Kuriyama

I didn't understand the Kindle's true value until I finished an e-book on the beach. In sixty seconds - and without benefit of pants - I had brand-new reading material at my fingertips.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster

I didn't use a phone until I was 14.
‐‐ Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.
‐‐ Christina Ricci

I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.
‐‐ Young Thug

I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.
‐‐ Bill Gates

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.
‐‐ Gregg Easterbrook

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
‐‐ Ramsey Clark

I didn't vote for President Obama, but I think he is our president, and I like and dislike decisions of any president in office.
‐‐ Matt Mead

I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.
‐‐ Yuri Kochiyama

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.'
‐‐ David Brock

I didn't wake up one day and think, 'I'm not going to have children.' My mother was a housewife and brought up three children, so I just thought it would happen.
‐‐ Michelle Paver

I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.
‐‐ Paul Westerberg

I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.
‐‐ Sarah Ferguson

I didn't want 'BSG' to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who's hiding out in the corner.
‐‐ Michael Trucco

I didn't want children until my late thirties because my career was taking off, and I was having such a good time in New Order. But when you have children, you have to make decisions; I always wanted to stay at home with my kids.
‐‐ Gillian Gilbert

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
‐‐ Penelope Lively

I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.
‐‐ Azita Ghanizada

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
‐‐ Dan Savage

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.
‐‐ Rupert Holmes

I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.
‐‐ LaTanya Richardson

I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.
‐‐ John Caudwell

I didn't want my gender to determine whether or not I could cover breaking news.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario

I didn't want my genome to be sequenced by any of the companies that were out there doing the partial sequences just from the point of view of commercialisation.
‐‐ Leroy Hood

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.
‐‐ Richard Marx

I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.
‐‐ Mary Pierce

I didn't want my parents to know about 4chan at first because of the adult content. By the time I was 18 and could talk about it, the site had become notorious for its exploits and the adult content on there.
‐‐ Christopher Poole

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.
‐‐ Linda Vester

I didn't want my records to sound like anybody else, and when I've got my guys in the studio, I have a language with those guys because we work together every day. A lot of times, you bring in outside guys, studio players, whatever, and they're great musicians. It's just that they don't necessarily play the way I want it to be played.
‐‐ Jason Aldean

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.
‐‐ Clemence Poesy

I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.
‐‐ Margaret Keane

I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
‐‐ Bob Crosby

I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.
‐‐ D. B. Sweeney

I didn't want people to think of me as someone who wasn't impressed with a silver medal, because obviously that's a huge accomplishment, and I was so happy. It was more about me just being not impressed with falling at the Olympics in my last event.
‐‐ McKayla Maroney

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.
‐‐ Terry Brooks

I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.
‐‐ Rafael Yglesias

I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.
‐‐ Eric Cantona

I didn't want that 15 minutes of fame moment like, 'Oh, she said she was gay.'
‐‐ Kirsten Vangsness

I didn't want the children to grow up and, when asked what their mother did, say, 'Oh, Mom's a gun moll in the movies.'
‐‐ Jane Greer

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.
‐‐ Mark Millar

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
‐‐ Vanilla Ice

I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones.
‐‐ Johnny Ramone

I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented.
‐‐ Jon Crosby

I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.
‐‐ Jim Sturgess

I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
‐‐ Pat Metheny