All Quotes

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
‐‐ Ina May Gaskin

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.
‐‐ Patti Smith

I had to learn right away how to improvise behind Ornette, which not only meant following him from one key to another and recognizing the different keys, but modulating in a way that the keys flowed in and out of each other, and the new harmonies sounded right.
‐‐ Charlie Haden

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.
‐‐ Gabrielle Union

I had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.
‐‐ John C. Mather

I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.
‐‐ Emily Blunt

I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths.
‐‐ Justin Trudeau

I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.
‐‐ Ray Harryhausen

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.
‐‐ Rodney King

I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
‐‐ L'Wren Scott

I had to learn to take my time in MMA, and I was just able to keep a clear head.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.
‐‐ Kim Alexis

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
‐‐ Brian Blessed

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
‐‐ Sally Field

I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn't supposed to be having it. And then when I got older, I lied to everybody I was having sex with, so I could have sex with other people.
‐‐ Cybill Shepherd

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'
‐‐ Alexandra Roach

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
‐‐ Ella Maillart

I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.
‐‐ Terry Goodkind

I had to live with the models in one big house for two months, 24 hours a day. Only a few of them actually learned how to sign... I couldn't really communicate with anybody, and I felt isolated.
‐‐ Nyle DiMarco

I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
‐‐ Bryan Robson

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.
‐‐ Audrey Hepburn

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.
‐‐ Charlie Rich

I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.
‐‐ Betty White

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
‐‐ T-Pain

I had to make my history quick because there would be no future, merely a gossamer world blown about on the zeitgeist, till zeitgeist, the wind of the times, is blasted away by kamikaze, the wind of God.
‐‐ Rene Ricard

I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
‐‐ Natalie Cole

I had to make some adjustments from what my life was like before I was a mom. My kids are so fun and loving, but they are also demanding!
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
‐‐ Elizabeth Berkley

I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day.
‐‐ Tara Strong

I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.
‐‐ Roddy Doyle

I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've got some good Mediterranean blood in them.
‐‐ Alexandra Wentworth

I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.
‐‐ Curtis Jackson

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.
‐‐ Rock Hudson

I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.
‐‐ Jeff Foxworthy

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
‐‐ Sam Walton

I had to pinch myself a couple of times that I was actually on stage at the Atlantic with Carol Kane.
‐‐ Mickey Sumner

I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers.
‐‐ Ryne Sandberg

I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.
‐‐ Joe Shuster

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.
‐‐ Gerard Butler

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali

I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.
‐‐ Brian Welch

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
‐‐ Zoe Saldana

I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.
‐‐ Klaus Schulze

I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.
‐‐ Cindy Sherman

I had to relearn how to ride a horse like an ape. I had to change how I jumped off and how I gripped them with my thighs and distribute my weight differently.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
‐‐ David Bowie

I had to restrain myself from buying a book on 19th-century fruit knives.
‐‐ Susanna Clarke