All Quotes

I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western medicine was not able to cure her. If I had discovered stem cells a year before, I think that she would still be here with me.
‐‐ Peter Nygard

I started 'Storyline' after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a 'New York Times' bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.
‐‐ Donald Miller

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.
‐‐ Krysten Ritter

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
‐‐ Gale Harold

I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many hours a day, and when I was at university, the electronic music boom started really taking off globally.
‐‐ Kygo

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.
‐‐ Marvin Hamlisch

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.
‐‐ Philip Zimbardo

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.
‐‐ Francois Arnaud

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
‐‐ Maya Lin

I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
‐‐ Rachel Zoe

I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
‐‐ Ted Chiang

I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts.
‐‐ JWoww

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.
‐‐ James Rothman

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.
‐‐ Lindsay Wagner

I started taking all these cooking classes. I learned a lot in them, but you think you're going to retain it, and you don't. Under the pressure, it's hard to retain everything.
‐‐ Judy Gold

I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'
‐‐ Rita Rudner

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
‐‐ Oksana Baiul

I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.
‐‐ Shawn Johnson

I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.
‐‐ Alex Winston

I started taking my fiance, Justin, to some red carpet events I would go to, and a bowtie is often something that was required. We came across a lot of stylish bowties. We liked playing dress up for these events and we thought it would be fun to start a line, but it was never a reality until recently.
‐‐ Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I started taking piano lessons from the age of six years old. It's such an essential part of what I do in the production process. I wouldn't be Kygo today without those piano lessons.
‐‐ Kygo

I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor.
‐‐ Adam Schlesinger

I started taking pictures when I was around 10, so I have been inadvertently been training my eye for it for years. Traveling gave me a ton of practice as well, and the ability, once you learn to properly manipulate and capture light and freeze any moment in time for safe keeping, has always fascinated me.
‐‐ Keahu Kahuanui

I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.
‐‐ Hilary Duff

I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!
‐‐ Adam Garcia

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.
‐‐ Kina Grannis

I started tennis around age 2.
‐‐ Tracy Austin

I started the 1998 World Cup with Teddy Sheringham up front but always planned for Michael Owen to face Colombia in our final group game because they defended square and a quick striker would be able to exploit the space behind them.
‐‐ Glenn Hoddle

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
‐‐ Katarina Witt

I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.
‐‐ Iman

I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it to, 'Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.'
‐‐ John Zorn

I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.
‐‐ Rick Derringer

I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role.
‐‐ John Cameron

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
‐‐ Shakira

I started 'The Rainmaker' in August 1996, and I've been working consistently ever since. It's not like I had some grand plan; I keep getting offered jobs so good I can't say no.
‐‐ Matt Damon

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine was tantamount to the Visigoths being at the gates about to tear down the citadel of Western civilization.
‐‐ Jon Kabat-Zinn

I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.
‐‐ Liana Liberato

I started thinking about how rain is depicted in illustrations. In comics that use gouache or watercolor, they use light blue, so I started using that color.
‐‐ Lucien Smith

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.
‐‐ Sara Blakely

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.
‐‐ Richard Price

I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as important as they're sometimes given credit for.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

I started thinking about what I've always been interested in: how people can't see things that are right in front of them. All you have to do is read the papers to see endless examples of smart people who can't see the nose on their faces.
‐‐ Jean Hanff Korelitz

I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?
‐‐ Valerie Bertinelli

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986.
‐‐ Naomi Campbell

I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS. Every penny, 100% of the public donations that come into this are given back out in the form of grants to colleges and researchers around the world.
‐‐ Montel Williams