All Quotes

I was not a project manager who was managing and executing the day-to-day operational work of building HealthCare.gov. I didn't have the kind of comprehensive, detailed, deep knowledge of that project that a manager would have.
‐‐ Todd Park

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
‐‐ Samantha Shannon

I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.
‐‐ Dane Cook

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.
‐‐ Allegra Huston

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

I was not a successful TV comedy writer.
‐‐ Graham Moore

I was not a trained actor.
‐‐ Frankie Avalon

I was not a very fearful kid, really.
‐‐ Clive Owen

I was not a very good football player when I started out.
‐‐ Lynn Swann

I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas

I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.
‐‐ Joanne Woodward

I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would change how liked I was. It was that kind of Pygmalion story. I think, ultimately that's probably why I became interested in fashion, its transformative power, and how it can change your identity.
‐‐ Joseph Altuzarra

I was not able to be the front forward of a soccer team - that is a way to make people super happy every Sunday. What I can do is tell stories and try to put my coin in that discussion.
‐‐ Alvaro Enrigue

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.
‐‐ Mike Mansfield

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
‐‐ Al Spalding

I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.
‐‐ Nat Turner

I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.
‐‐ Ed Koch

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.
‐‐ Georg Brandes

I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line.
‐‐ Jung Chang

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.
‐‐ Michael Nyqvist

I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible.
‐‐ Hedda Sterne

I was not an activist.
‐‐ Joe Biden

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

I was not an attractive child.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as a tent.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

I was not an avid comic book reader as a kid.
‐‐ Ciara Renee

I was not an easy kid.
‐‐ Patricia Heaton

I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.
‐‐ Robert Coleman Richardson

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.
‐‐ Steve Case

I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but I was kind of a momma's boy. Then one day, my brother Roger encouraged me to go to the boxing gym with him. I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.
‐‐ Alfonso Cuaron

I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.
‐‐ Judy Greer

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'
‐‐ Buck Leonard

I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.
‐‐ Queen Latifah

I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.
‐‐ Michelle Bachelet

I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.
‐‐ Chen Guangbiao

I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

I was not born with tremendous ambition.
‐‐ Roger Moore

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.
‐‐ Raul Castro

I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

I was not considered a kid that would be successful in my career.
‐‐ Tsai Ing-wen

I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.
‐‐ Iman

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
‐‐ Aleister Crowley

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.
‐‐ Ali ibn Abi Talib

I was not cut out to be a rebel.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.
‐‐ Frank Woolley