All Quotes

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.
‐‐ Kendrick Lamar

I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her when I was sixteen. It didn't go over so well, because I grew up in the Pentecostal Church. It was a very strict environment. She has since done a lot of work and has really blown my mind. She has learned about my life and has changed her mind.
‐‐ Billy Porter

I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
‐‐ Lauryn Hill

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
‐‐ Georgia O'Keeffe

I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
‐‐ S. Truett Cathy

I had to dance in a Tweety Bird costume once.
‐‐ Margarita Levieva

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.
‐‐ Susan Powter

I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.
‐‐ Taylor Hicks

I had to deal with death at a really young age.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Chriqui

I had to deal with terrorist finance. And we had to, if you like, ensure that the accounts of people who were guilty of terrorist finance or using their accounts for terrorist finance were closed down. So we had to do asset freezing.
‐‐ Gordon Brown

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.
‐‐ Jurgen Klinsmann

I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.
‐‐ Alonzo Mourning

I had to do a lot of dancing in 'Queens of Country.'
‐‐ Lizzy Caplan

I had to do a Northern England accent once, and I didn't have much time, so I went and pored through YouTube. There are all sorts of resources out there. The Internet has made that much more affordable. Don't break your neck to spend your money.
‐‐ Rose McIver

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
‐‐ Marie Windsor

I had to do something for the country.
‐‐ Hanoi Hannah

I had to do something special coming in. I didn't do it, so I had to do it in the playoff. Winning the Mercedes is awesome. Winning three times is a dream come true.
‐‐ Stuart Appleby

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
‐‐ Cilla Black

I had to do the full body shave for the first coupla weeks of 'White Chicks,' then I said, 'You know what? I'm just gonna be a hairy white chick 'cause this is too much!
‐‐ Marlon Wayans

I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.
‐‐ Danny Elfman

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.
‐‐ Art Modell

I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We've done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to be challenged, but who also won't be falling asleep at the theater.
‐‐ Diane Paulus

I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
‐‐ Salma Hayek

I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty.
‐‐ Brendan Coyle

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.
‐‐ Fritz Sauckel

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?
‐‐ Otto Dix

I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.
‐‐ Gabby Douglas

I had to fend for myself from the time I was 17 years old. I was a high-school dropout. I wasn't quite living on the streets, but I didn't have a lot of hope.
‐‐ Rene Russo

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
‐‐ Ty Cobb

I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.
‐‐ Hilary Swank

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
‐‐ Barbara Kruger

I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.
‐‐ Patti Stanger

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.
‐‐ Ann Demeulemeester

I had to find my own path, and in some ways, it's been a good thing.
‐‐ Lizzie Armitstead

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
‐‐ Ang Lee

I had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I'm kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.
‐‐ James Redfield

I had to find stories no one else was writing, so I got away from the quarterback and the coach. I'm still looking for stories no one else has written.
‐‐ John Branch

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.
‐‐ Mario Vazquez

I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.
‐‐ Diane Ladd

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.
‐‐ Mikhail Kalashnikov

I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

I had to get beat to understand how to win.
‐‐ Bob Beamon

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.
‐‐ Roz Chast

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.
‐‐ Kenny Loggins

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.
‐‐ Jada Pinkett Smith