All Quotes

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

I leave the hip thrusts to Michael Jackson.
‐‐ Justin Bieber

I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.
‐‐ Giacomo Casanova

I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation.
‐‐ Elie Ducommun

I leave work by 6:30 P.M. so I can spend some time with the children. Inevitably, we'll end up watching basketball or football. I live in a house of boys, and they're all sports mad, so I don't stand a chance.
‐‐ Aerin Lauder

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
‐‐ Frida Kahlo

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.
‐‐ Joseph M. Kyrillos

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.
‐‐ Dick Gephardt

I led the state in defensive interceptions my senior year, with seven in nine games. Then I went to Montana to play basketball and found out quickly that my college career wasn't going to work out how I'd envisioned it.
‐‐ Jeff Ament

I left acting for a couple of years to found my company, Wayfarer, and the first project I did was this documentary series I created called 'My Last Days' to remind us that our time is limited and to inspire us to do more and to be the best selves that we can be.
‐‐ Justin Baldoni

I left acting in the summer of 1988 because I was unhappy with a lot of the irresponsibility that was going on in the entertainment industry.
‐‐ Ben Harney

I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.
‐‐ Elmore Leonard

I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.
‐‐ Gwynne Shotwell

I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.
‐‐ Michael Masser

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.
‐‐ Andy Hertzfeld

I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.
‐‐ Melissa Manchester

I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.
‐‐ Peter Jurasik

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
‐‐ Ma Jian

I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
‐‐ Ma Jian

I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I'm loving it.
‐‐ Charlie Cox

I left Chicago many years ago to move to California. You can't help but live a healthy lifestyle here if you want to fit in. I find myself eating chicken and salad and chicken and salad and salad and chicken, like a monk.
‐‐ James Belushi

I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.
‐‐ Sofia Vergara

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.
‐‐ Amartya Sen

I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee

I left 'Dr Who' after 18 months, as my character was going nowhere. In truth, I wished I had never gone into it. Afterwards, all the scripts that came my way were for 15-year olds.
‐‐ Carole Ann Ford

I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience.
‐‐ Ben Schnetzer

I left Egypt in 1969 for graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. I have been on the faculty at Caltech for 37 years and carried dual citizenship for 31. But my commitment to the country of my birth never wavered.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

I left Facebook after Facebook groups began appearing about me and suddenly your personal photographs start becoming public property.
‐‐ Freddie Stroma

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
‐‐ Patrick White

I left for New York three days after graduation.
‐‐ Jenn Lyon

I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
‐‐ Carl Spitteler

I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.
‐‐ Andy Hertzfeld

I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn't want to do that. That was crazy. After you work on Wall Street, it's a choice: would you rather work at McDonald's or on the sell side? I would choose McDonald's over the sell side.
‐‐ David Tepper

I left Google after four years of working on Google Maps, search, and Google TV as a product marketing manager. I knew I wanted to do something on my own.
‐‐ Brit Morin

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
‐‐ David Remnick

I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne.
‐‐ Michael Zaslow

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.
‐‐ Ewan McGregor

I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
‐‐ Samuel Goldwyn

I left home at 15 to go to the North Carolina School of the Arts.
‐‐ Margaret Qualley

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
‐‐ Zac Efron

I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.
‐‐ Fred Couples

I left home because I was hungry.
‐‐ Red Skelton

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.
‐‐ Gregg Allman

I left home when I turned 17 and ran away to New York. I did a lot of moving. I was based in New York and country-hopping, so I was always 'the new girl'.
‐‐ Sarah Roemer

I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.
‐‐ Gene Hackman

I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.
‐‐ David Edwards

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
‐‐ Bill Hicks

I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.
‐‐ Mike Epps

I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.
‐‐ Navid Negahban

I left Israel to work as a model, to just make money - I didn't care if I was doing an ad for toilet paper or diapers, I just really wanted to allow myself to go to school, to go to university without waitressing, because when I'm in a school environment I just really like to study and have the best grades and learn as much as I can.
‐‐ Moran Atias