All Quotes

I got my first exposure to Islam when I was 13.
‐‐ Mos Def

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!
‐‐ Jerry Reed

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.
‐‐ Ernie Isley

I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril Lavigne! But I got annoyed with having to plug it in and play with amps and pedals and stuff. Then I got given a cheap acoustic, a Tanglewood, and I thought it was awesome because I could play it anywhere!
‐‐ Gabrielle Aplin

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.
‐‐ Don McLean

I got my first handgun license when I was 22.
‐‐ Miranda Lambert

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.
‐‐ Chord Overstreet

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.
‐‐ Chord Overstreet

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.
‐‐ Alan Patricof

I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.
‐‐ Katie Leclerc

I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
‐‐ Imelda May

I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?
‐‐ Michael Palin

I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do.
‐‐ Suzi Quatro

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.
‐‐ Jeremih

I got my first show at Blum & Poe because Paul McCarthy postponed his show, and they came to my studio and asked me if I could put together a show in two weeks.
‐‐ Mark Grotjahn

I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now.
‐‐ Josh Hutcherson

I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.
‐‐ Ted Danson

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.
‐‐ Tullian Tchividjian

I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark Linn-Baker. You know - the guy from 'Perfect Strangers.'
‐‐ Lev Grossman

I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so you really have to follow the rules and do everything the right way to be able to accomplish that, so it was big... I had my green card for so long.
‐‐ Camila Alves

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.
‐‐ Terry Gilliam

I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scary. A girl in heels in New York is a hard combination.
‐‐ Sasha Pieterse

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.
‐‐ Brad Bird

I got my influences from '70s bands - Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah. When I was growing up, we had all these crazy bands on the Top 40. Today, if Pink Floyd released 'Money,' it wouldn't even get played.
‐‐ Al Jourgensen

I got my inspiration when I sat down with my father, at about eight or nine years old, and watched 'The Rumble in the Jungle.'
‐‐ Nicola Adams

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull

I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.
‐‐ Luke Bryan

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn't what I had imagined at all.
‐‐ Jane Goodall

I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.
‐‐ Flea

I got my mathematics degree because I wanted to teach deaf children math.
‐‐ Nyle DiMarco

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.
‐‐ Joshua Lederberg

I got my own back.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
‐‐ Fetty Wap

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.
‐‐ Mathias Rust

I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago.
‐‐ Timothy Simons

I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978.
‐‐ Mary Steenburgen

I got my SAG card when I was 10 by starring in a Beenie Weenie's commercial.
‐‐ Jennifer Morrison

I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.
‐‐ Paul Mooney

I got my service dog when I was medically retired out of the military, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I wish every medically retired serviceman could have a service dog. He's amazing. He's my best bud. I go everywhere and anywhere with him.
‐‐ Marcus Luttrell

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.
‐‐ Chris Hayes

I got my start in the 'New York Times' because I used to read Stuart Elliot, the advertising columns. I still do. And I read him so religiously, I wanted to work for him before I died.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump... I like that guy. I've been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.
‐‐ Jack Ma

I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.
‐‐ Michael Rooker

I got my very last tattoo after my father died. I'm not getting anymore; otherwise I'll end up like Mike Tyson with a tattoo on my face.
‐‐ Seann William Scott

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
‐‐ Mick Jagger

I got Neil Walker now as my new second baseman. He's great. He looks comfortable there. He knows what he's doing. That's the second baseman you want to play with.
‐‐ Asdrubal Cabrera

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
‐‐ Anita Diament

I got no entourage in real life. Solo. I go solo. No entourage.
‐‐ Kevin Connolly