All Quotes

I was not pushed into the business by anything other than my own ambition and my own dream of wanting to act.
‐‐ Tina Majorino

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!
‐‐ Breaux Greer

I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!
‐‐ Dana Snyder

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.
‐‐ Roseanne Barr

I was not raised to be someone's wife. I was raised so that things should be evenly distributed.
‐‐ Joie Lee

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.
‐‐ Michelle Obama

I was not really as good as I should have been.
‐‐ Eddie Albert

I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
‐‐ Samantha Shannon

I was not scared at all.
‐‐ Nik Wallenda

I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.
‐‐ S. Truett Cathy

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.
‐‐ Stephan Jenkins

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
‐‐ Casey Stengel

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions.
‐‐ James Randi

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
‐‐ Gary Becker

I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.
‐‐ Martha Wainwright

I was not the hot, popular girl in school.
‐‐ Alexis Knapp

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.
‐‐ Jane Lynch

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.
‐‐ Norman Lamm

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.
‐‐ Angie Harmon

I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
‐‐ Tate Donovan

I was not the popular kid in school.
‐‐ Gabriel Iglesias

I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field.
‐‐ Michael Spence

I was not to the manor born.
‐‐ Israel Horovitz

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
‐‐ Bea Arthur

I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.
‐‐ Gil Kane

I was not tormented in any way; I was never even bullied. I had a nice teenage life.
‐‐ Sara Shepard

I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.
‐‐ John C. Hawkes

I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir.
‐‐ Lizzie Andrew Borden

I was not used to criticism.
‐‐ Terry Bradshaw

I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.
‐‐ Uday Kotak

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, 'This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.' The banana in Congo is called 'Dikembe.' So my uncle start calling me, 'Dikembe, Dikembe, look at you Dikembe, you cannot even stand up.' It took a long time for me to walk.
‐‐ Dikembe Mutombo

I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.
‐‐ Peter DeLuise

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.
‐‐ Alain Robert

I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the screen we did not have a single segment ready. It was done so fast the writers never got a chance to know what it was all about.
‐‐ Jeffrey Hunter

I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.
‐‐ Joanna Southcott

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
‐‐ Oskar Schindler

I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.
‐‐ Robert Barany

I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.
‐‐ Flip Wilson

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.
‐‐ Brenda Lee

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
‐‐ Tamora Pierce

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
‐‐ Johann Sebastian Bach

I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
‐‐ Barbara Steele

I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.
‐‐ Nicos Anastasiades

I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.
‐‐ Giles Duley

I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.
‐‐ Mindy Kaling