All Quotes

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
‐‐ Paul Wellstone

I was talking on the phone in my trailer, and I looked in the mirror and I saw the badge clipped to my belt, a gun with a holster, and the suit and the tie with the jacket off, and it was just deja vu. I remember that image so clearly from growing up. My dad would come home for lunch, take off his jacket, have the gun and the badge.
‐‐ Michael Trucco

I was talking recently with a friend of mine who's determined to never meet her heroes, and I have another friend who's been horribly disillusioned a couple of times. But I've had a wonderful ride with meeting people who have been my North Stars, and Bowie's definitely one of them. He feels like my cousin; like the cousin I never had.
‐‐ Tilda Swinton

I was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and he had a smile on his face. I thought, 'I'm not even a 10th of this man.'
‐‐ Ron White

I was talking to Coach Wooden after I had signed at UCLA and over the summer, and we used to talk all the time. The thing is, talking to Bill Walton, once you throw in your two cents, he throws in the other 98 cents. He will not stop talking, I'll tell you what.
‐‐ Kevin Love

I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
‐‐ Larry Hogan

I was talking to my dad, who's a neurosurgeon. He had this academic paper he wanted to publish. Journals take about 18 months to publish a paper, and he just wanted to get things up there.
‐‐ Trip Adler

I was talking to my good friend Kid Rock a while ago, and he told me if I'd send him a helmet, he'd send me an autographed platinum record. I thought that was a pretty sweet swap.
‐‐ Peyton Manning

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.
‐‐ James McAvoy

I was talking to Rupert Murdoch the other day at a lunch, and he said, 'Maybe I'll live to 100'. He actually thinks he will live to 100!
‐‐ Gerry Harvey

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.
‐‐ Amy Grant

I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
‐‐ Zendaya

I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.
‐‐ Amanda Burton

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.
‐‐ Lenny Kravitz

I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found if you're suggesting quite big changes, a quiet style may be reassuring.
‐‐ Bill Drayton

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.
‐‐ Doug Collins

I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.
‐‐ Ryne Sandberg

I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what's going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren't right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today.
‐‐ Michael Moore

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
‐‐ Queen Latifah

I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.
‐‐ Tom Shadyac

I was taught never to compromise: to never sing a cheap song. I never look down at the audience and think that they are ignorant or think that I'm more intelligent than they are. To think otherwise is totally incorrect and runs contrary to everything I was raised to believe.
‐‐ Tony Bennett

I was taught not to confront and interrupt people, but that's what I do every day on 'The View.'
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd

I was taught nothing about the suffragettes in school. The version I eventually got was mainly about the peaceful campaigning of the constitutional suffragists. Their work was vital, but there was this other, not widely known story of the women who risked everything, who were prepared to break every taboo.
‐‐ Sarah Gavron

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.
‐‐ Lynn Margulis

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.
‐‐ Joe Jamail

I was taught that in this country if you work hard, you can do anything, and I don't see a lot of those principles in children's books today.
‐‐ Allen Covert

I was taught that pain is bad.
‐‐ Keith Miller

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
‐‐ Marie Curie

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
‐‐ Malcolm Mclaren

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.
‐‐ Todd Phillips

I was taught to be anti-Jewish.
‐‐ Mercedes McCambridge

I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?'
‐‐ Heather Graham

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.
‐‐ Damien Hirst

I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven is to one against your finding the prince. That's why little girls don't do math.
‐‐ Emily Levine

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.
‐‐ Ellsworth Kelly

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
‐‐ Oscar Robertson

I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!
‐‐ Stevie Ray Vaughan

I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.
‐‐ Olivia Culpo

I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching him planing wood for the coffins, and he used to whistle all the time - and eventually I started whistling, too. I can whistle anything, particularly trumpet tunes from Classic FM.
‐‐ Susan Hill

I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.
‐‐ Gerald Chertavian

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.
‐‐ Mos Def

I was taught you don't tell your secrets to strangers - certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness, failure. My generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform.
‐‐ Ryne Sandberg

I was taunted because I was different.
‐‐ Canelo Alvarez

I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party.
‐‐ Niger Innis