All Quotes

I was well-dressed and good at firing people because I really did care. I cared about giving them the opportunity to talk through the situation and was always sincere. I would explain that 'This was a bad match,' and they were probably meant to do other things if they weren't giving their all to this, which paid $10 a hour.
‐‐ Al Madrigal

I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.
‐‐ Mike Myers

I was well into middle age when one of my children, then in the second grade, was found to be dyslexic. I had never known the name for it, but I recognized immediately that the symptoms were also mine.
‐‐ Philip Schultz

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.
‐‐ Sister Souljah

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
‐‐ Barbara Corcoran

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
‐‐ Tom T. Hall

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.
‐‐ Margaret Halsey

I was what's known as a floater. I could sit at the edge of most cafeteria tables, but was never a part of any one group. I was also a dork. And still am. And proud!
‐‐ Alexandra Robbins

I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.
‐‐ George Miller

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
‐‐ A. J. Jacobs

I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.
‐‐ Gregory Corso

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
‐‐ Iggy Pop

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

I was wildly interested in puberty as a child.
‐‐ Judy Blume

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.
‐‐ John Sebastian

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote.
‐‐ Megan Gallagher

I was willing to go just about anywhere in the U.S. for the best job - except New York City. Of course, I received a job offer from GM - in New York City.
‐‐ Rick Wagoner

I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
‐‐ Dan Hill

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
‐‐ Margaret Mead

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.
‐‐ Creed Bratton

I was with a Navy F-18 squadron, and I know a single squadron could finish off the entire Sudanese air force in a day.
‐‐ Tom Catena

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.
‐‐ Chuck Feeney

I was with All Pro Dad, and I was coaching. People recognized me as a coach. They might see my face and say, 'What's going on there, is that something with the Colts or the Buccaneers?' Then they realize, 'This is something with my kids; let me explore.' So I think that helped, that name recognition.
‐‐ Tony Dungy

I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washington, during Black Congressional Caucus Weekend, and did a panel about global warming with him. It was almost as if I switched careers for a while, and became a political activist.
‐‐ Lawrence Bender

I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.
‐‐ Jill McCorkle

I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

I was with my wife for five years before we got married. At some point, she was ready to take the next step, and I would say, 'I'm committed to you now; nothing's going to change.'
‐‐ James Marsden

I was with my wife for five years before we got married, so we've been together since I was 22.
‐‐ James Marsden

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.
‐‐ Roy Ayers

I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.
‐‐ Amy Jo Martin

I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!
‐‐ Jesse Helms

I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while.
‐‐ Rose McGowan

I was with someone at 19, and I was married at 23, and I didn't want kids when I was in my 20s.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs.
‐‐ Maurice Strong

I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.
‐‐ Rick Atkinson

I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
‐‐ Barry Eisler

I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
‐‐ Katharine Cornell

I was with the mujaheddin, the rebels, and they were fighting against the Russians, and they would bring me along. Some of the adventures, when I look back at them now, it's a wonder I'm still around.
‐‐ Richard Ben Cramer

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.
‐‐ Emo Philips

I was with Tina Turner when she first saw Janis Joplin, and she said to Janis, 'Honey, you can't continue to sing like that, or you'll have no voice,' and Janis' response was just to laugh and take a swig on her Southern Comfort.
‐‐ Michael Wadleigh

I was, without a sliver of a doubt, a no-good, lazy slacker of a child, and after I discovered literature, I was totally and utterly a no-good, lazy slacker of a child who read books. A lot of books, good and bad, but my favourite - the books I read and reread in my teens - were by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
‐‐ Ben Peek

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.
‐‐ Clara Hughes

I was working a corporate job, but I really wanted to do music.
‐‐ Awkwafina

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.
‐‐ Les Baxter

I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah

I was working as a stockbroker in New York and had the seemingly perfect life.
‐‐ Michael Masser

I was working at a candy-wrapping factory before I became an actor. I admit I snuck some hard candy, which is great because you can suck on it while you're working.
‐‐ Verne Troyer