All Quotes

I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.
‐‐ Eric Davis

I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to.
‐‐ Julia Roberts

I was four or five, and my mom got all the Power Rangers to come through. I thought it was really them. I started crying tears of joy. It was so amazing. My favorite Power Ranger was the green one. He wasn't in every episode - he was rare, like Based God. He was like the Based God Power Ranger.
‐‐ Domo Genesis

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
‐‐ Taiye Selasi

I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
‐‐ Laura Dekker

I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an actor. Because I was a really smiley kid and could read, which is something they're always looking for, she just decided to give it a shot.
‐‐ Charlotte Arnold

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
‐‐ Black Elk

I was four years old when I saw 'Star Wars', and it has been significantly important throughout my entire life.
‐‐ Seth Green

I was four years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941 by Japan, and overnight, the world was plunged into a world war. America suddenly was swept up by hysteria.
‐‐ George Takei

I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
‐‐ V. E. Schwab

I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China.
‐‐ John Pomfret

I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.
‐‐ Emmeline Pankhurst

I was France.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, and I thought this was such a cowboy deal, and I don't wear a hat. They might not think I'm a cowboy. That might sound ridiculous to a lot of people, but apparently, it meant something to me. I wound up with a cowboy tattoo from my elbow to my wrist.
‐‐ Ronnie Dunn

I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
‐‐ Harmony Korine

I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'
‐‐ Kevin Barry

I was freezing in that loincloth.
‐‐ Jim Caviezel

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

I was fresh out of drama school and had no idea what I was doing. They hustled me along and Bill Cosby tolerated my rookie behavior. It was great. Once you have 'The Cosby Show' on your resume, you can keep going.
‐‐ Michael Weatherly

I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didn't even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.
‐‐ James Maslow

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.
‐‐ Ian Frazier

I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

I was frightened. I hadn't really had any experience, and then all of a sudden I was thrown straight into doing interviews. Most people have build-up. I had none.
‐‐ Charlotte Dujardin

I was from a little rinky-dink town - to be a model... it looked like a lot of fun. I'd look at the girls, and they always looked happy.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.
‐‐ Leonard Susskind

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
‐‐ Imelda May

I was from North Carolina, so as a youngster all of my mind games about golf were always, 'If I make this I win The Masters, if I hole this par putt I win The Masters.' So it was a great thrill to play there.
‐‐ Raymond Floyd

I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'
‐‐ Robert Rodriguez

I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.
‐‐ Stuart Appleby

I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.
‐‐ James Dyson

I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.
‐‐ David O. Russell

I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

I was frustrated with how academia tended to present feminist theory in disconnected or inaccessible ways. I wanted to try and bring a sociological feminist lens to the limited and limiting representations of women in the media and then share that with other young women of my generation. YouTube was the perfect medium.
‐‐ Anita Sarkeesian

I was full time on 'Party of Five' for one year, then more like a creative consultant for two years, where I was in the writing rotation but didn't have to go in every day or cover the set until midnight.
‐‐ Susannah Grant

I was fully immersed in the now as an athlete.
‐‐ Kyle Shewfelt

I was gaga about dinosaurs as a kid.
‐‐ David H. Koch

I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.
‐‐ Robert Atkins

I was 'gay-bashed' when I was in school even though, you know, I'm not... I'm a straight guy that just happens to be what I do. So, it's easily relatable to me. It was awful. It's a hard time in a kid's life.
‐‐ Grant Gustin

I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago. It's been 28 years since a friend and I organized one of the first gay soccer teams in the world.
‐‐ Rabih Alameddine

I was genuinely frightened when I saw the Daleks. These ridiculous-looking things absolutely get to the core of you when you're standing in front of one.
‐‐ Miranda Raison

I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in teaching history that went beyond memorizing dates and battles and all of that - basically, looking at the life of individuals throughout history, aided by fascinating primary sources.
‐‐ Alexandra Bracken

I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
‐‐ Pamela Anderson

I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.
‐‐ Bruce Oldfield

I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me.
‐‐ Henry Thomas

I was getting a lot of really nasty feedback about my weight during 'Fargo,' which is unfortunate because I am statistically a completely average-size woman.
‐‐ Allison Tolman

I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.
‐‐ Terry Gilliam

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
‐‐ Candice Bergen

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.
‐‐ Charlie Bell