All Quotes

I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even - I spoke French and Yiddish mostly. I was picked on.
‐‐ Saul Rubinek

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'
‐‐ Margaret Cho

I was raised to be some kind of artist.
‐‐ Ellar Coltrane

I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family.
‐‐ Mike Pence

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
‐‐ Oprah Winfrey

I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.
‐‐ Paul Cook

I was raised to believe that you're safe in God's hands. But I don't feel safe with myself.
‐‐ Megan Fox

I was raised to pretend.
‐‐ Anne Heche

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
‐‐ Sally Field

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.
‐‐ Judy Collins

I was raised to think cursing makes you look unintelligent.
‐‐ Chloe Grace Moretz

I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
‐‐ Flea

I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
‐‐ Iman

I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
‐‐ Curt Schilling

I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.
‐‐ Debby Ryan

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
‐‐ Tamara Ecclestone

I was raised to work for my father when I was four.
‐‐ Jared Kushner

I was raised vegan. My mom would always make quinoa with squash and kale, hippie stuff like that. Now I eat meat, but I try to be conscious about where it's coming from.
‐‐ Zoe Kravitz

I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.
‐‐ Jidenna

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.
‐‐ Kim Kardashian

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.
‐‐ Anthony Mackie

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.
‐‐ Alice Englert

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.
‐‐ Dory Previn

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.
‐‐ Steve Martin

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I'd been taught.
‐‐ Edward Ruscha

I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.
‐‐ Mark Harmon

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.
‐‐ Peter Jennings

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.
‐‐ Jim Webb

I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
‐‐ Jack Scalia

I was raised with three bothers, no sisters. I've always been a tomboy.
‐‐ Alexis Knapp

I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I chose not to go away and make certain movies.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.
‐‐ Karolyn Grimes

I was ranked the second most conservative member in the House.
‐‐ Jason Chaffetz

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.
‐‐ Brandy Norwood

I was rapping at eight.
‐‐ Nick Cannon

I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

I was rather a fat little boy.
‐‐ Cyril Cusack

I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to be a writer, but not a great way to achieve in the classroom. The truth is that I was happy to bumble along and do enough to avoid detention, but not much more.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine.
‐‐ Michael Nyman

I was rather hopeless at school, but the one subject I seemed to be good at was domestic science.
‐‐ Mary Berry

I was re-watching 'E.T.' recently, and that scene where they're all around the pizza, bringing the pizza in, and gambling and stuff together, it's such an amazing tone, it's so rough, and nobody's really talking about anything, and it feels like you're in that room with them.
‐‐ Colin Trevorrow

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
‐‐ Tim Vine

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.
‐‐ Naguib Mahfouz

I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.
‐‐ Dick Dale

I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
‐‐ Caitlin Kittredge

I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me.
‐‐ Cilla Black

I was reading an article about Kings of Leon's bass player, who said that he was directly influenced by Joy Division and by me. I was like, 'Woah!' It surprised me. It's a great compliment.
‐‐ Peter Hook

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.'
‐‐ Steve Martin

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.
‐‐ Joshua Lederberg