All Quotes

I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you.
‐‐ Joe Frazier

I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. It's primarily Mick Jagger, but they're all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. It's just deeply, deeply attractive.
‐‐ Ben Daniels

I went to see 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' and J.J. Abrams, who's a friend of mine, made this film, and I went to see it at the premiere. Believe it or not, I was really blown away by the comic timing of it.
‐‐ James Gray

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
‐‐ Verne Troyer

I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.
‐‐ Cherry Jones

I went to see the 'Spider-Man' movies because my wife is a fan, and so are my kids.
‐‐ Denis Leary

I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. I'm not a Wall Street lawyer, I'm a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh. One of the clients is Mellon Bank, which merged with the Bank of New York Mellon a number of years ago. And I have for years have done software licensing for Mellon.
‐‐ Keith Rothfus

I went to several different grade schools all over the West Coast. I got polio when I was 8 and spent eight months in the hospital and a rehab clinic in Seattle.
‐‐ Dennis Washington

I went to SG Formula and became Formula Renault 2.0 Champion. I went then to ART in Formula 3 and became Champion. Then I stayed with the team in GP2 Asia Series, and again, I became Champion. Then the first year of GP2 was really great. I was P4 at the end of the season, which was a fantastic result.
‐‐ Romain Grosjean

I went to Sirius Satellite Radio and did my show, Rapping With Rip.
‐‐ Rip Taylor

I went to sleep away camp seven years in a row. I was such a pro.
‐‐ Joe Jonas

I went to some sports camps when I was really young and hated it. So I changed and went to camps where I could dance all morning and act all afternoon.
‐‐ Jane Badler

I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had to make friends quickly. It was difficult at the start because I was very bookish - I was literally sat in the corner reading books, with no friends.
‐‐ Isla Fisher

I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.
‐‐ Bai Ling

I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.
‐‐ Michael Tolkin

I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.
‐‐ Alexandra Roach

I went to stand-up when my rock n' roll dreams weren't coming true. I knew it wasn't going to happen when I was in a New Wave band in 1992 - at the height of grunge. Then I heard No Doubt's 'Spiderwebs' and I said, 'Well, we're done.' They did - and succeeded at - what we were trying to do.
‐‐ Greg Behrendt

I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.
‐‐ Zeresenay Alemseged

I went to state in track, won the girls' city championship, and did well in volleyball. I was a varsity cheerleader. So you know, shoot, I've got a couple of letters and things! Last I counted, I think there were eight in my mama's house.
‐‐ Vivica A. Fox

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.
‐‐ James Callis

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.
‐‐ Dido Armstrong

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
‐‐ Frances Farmer

I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote the book and the organizers invited me and it seemed silly not to go, especially for a relatively unknown first-time author. This is just not my cup of tea; the fewer such events I do on an annual basis, the happier I feel.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

I went to Syracuse University.
‐‐ Jessie Mueller

I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!
‐‐ Theophilus London

I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.
‐‐ Josef Albers

I went to the actual SVU precinct... and got a really good sense of what it was like.
‐‐ Danny Pino

I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a woman, taught nothing but the classics. They revered the great British and American writers.
‐‐ Thomas H. Cook

I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'
‐‐ Steven Wright

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull

I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it.
‐‐ Katy B

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
‐‐ Cecilia Bartoli

I went to the Conservatory, studying piano and singing, up to high school - but I only did four years because I then had to start working, and the jobs were so good that I didn't stop.
‐‐ Elena Roger

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?
‐‐ Jay London

I went to the doctor last week. I said: 'Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?' He said: 'Why?' I said: 'She's woke up.'
‐‐ Les Dawson

I went to the doctor recently and she actually prescribed that I go out for ten minutes a day, I'm so depleted on vitamin D.
‐‐ Jorma Taccone

I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.
‐‐ Bill Forsyth

I went to the Gobi Desert, even though I had no scenes there. This is the greatness of China, the landscape, even for us.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.
‐‐ Harvey Korman

I went to the Grand Canyon with my family when I was about 8 years old, and I had a very blah experience. I think the scale of it is too huge - you don't appreciate it.
‐‐ David Roberts

I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was lucky enough to be taught by a beautiful, wonderful teacher called Patsy Rodenberg, who works a lot with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a voice coach and technician.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.
‐‐ Adam Oates

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
‐‐ Anthony Anderson

I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
‐‐ John Burroughs

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.
‐‐ John Hume

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.
‐‐ David Naughton

I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant.
‐‐ Ron Moody