All Quotes

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my voice, so it's kind of nice that now I'm making a lot of money with it.
‐‐ Leslie Mann

I was teased up until high school about my hair, being short, my high pitched voice, and just anything you can think of.
‐‐ Chrissie Fit

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.
‐‐ Robin Wright

I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal; then you have TV, and things like web series do not claim as much cred, but the fact is, if the material is solid and I believe and trust in the team that's involved, I don't care what format it is.
‐‐ Tony Hale

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.
‐‐ Jim Barksdale

I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.
‐‐ Natalie Coughlin

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.
‐‐ David Bailey

I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.
‐‐ Patrick Nielsen Hayden

I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.
‐‐ Hamish Bowles

I was terrible at desk jobs.
‐‐ David Chang

I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and mother. It was a household that preferred me working, which threw me off completely.
‐‐ Mika Brzezinski

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

I was terrible at school.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention - it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
‐‐ Gareth Gates

I was terribly gawky, too goofy to become a high-kicking cheerleader, with stringy brown hair and bad posture. Definitely nobody noticeable!
‐‐ Helen Slater

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.
‐‐ Nigel Rees

I was terribly shy, but I was always in harmony when I was dancing.
‐‐ Donna McKechnie

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.
‐‐ Emily Mortimer

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

I was terrified and confused every day of my life until I started Nasty Gal, and for a good while after as well.
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso

I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting.
‐‐ Mary Crosby

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!
‐‐ John Glover

I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.
‐‐ Alan Arkin

I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.
‐‐ Farrah Fawcett

I was terrified of taking the G.R.E.
‐‐ Dana Goodyear

I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.
‐‐ Dylan McDermott

I was terrified of vault, like literally I hated it. I had a fear of running as fast as I could at a solid object, which is I think a normal fear to have because nobody would really want to do that. Once I got over the fear of running into the table I just kind of relaxed and now it's like autopilot. I love it.
‐‐ Alicia Sacramone

I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.
‐‐ Lesley Ann Warren

I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified when they diagnosed me with cancer in 1994. I was terrified when my son used to drive too fast. But I do believe in the fact that fear is not an option, so I always try to face it and not be afraid.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'
‐‐ Channing Tatum

I was that ginger kid who always wanted people to like him. It's hard, and you've got a big chip on your shoulder for a long time.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

I was that kid who was always practicing crying or falling asleep or being angry or being excited. I was that weirdo in my room making faces.
‐‐ Rosa Salazar

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.
‐‐ Seanan McGuire

I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldn't get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.
‐‐ Andrew Stanton

I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
‐‐ Zendaya

I was that weird kid that checked out all of the non-fiction paranormal studies books from the library. I've always been fascinated by the supernatural, particularly movies and TV shows that manage to blend humor with the horror - 'Supernatural', 'Buffy', 'Angel.'
‐‐ Molly Harper

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.
‐‐ Bob Gunton

I was the all-American face.
‐‐ Debra Winger

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.
‐‐ Scott Caan

I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But when I went to high school, I was undersized. I didn't grow. I was behind the whole puberty cycle. I didn't like high school.
‐‐ Pete Carroll

I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic.
‐‐ Rocky Graziano

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, 'Why am I lying to everybody?' I would hear other people lie and be like, 'You sound so stupid.' So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.
‐‐ Kendall Jenner

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.
‐‐ Andre Rieu