All Quotes

My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
‐‐ Hill Harper

My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening that is what the undergraduate years are supposed to be. I went to the university with the goal of becoming an engineer; I had no concept that one could pursue science as a career.
‐‐ Alan J. Heeger

My understanding, from what I've learned so far about Commissioner Gordon, is that he's the older guy with the mustache who relates with our hero in a certain way.
‐‐ J. K. Simmons

My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of what climate change was doing, the human role in causing it.
‐‐ John Holdren

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.
‐‐ Margaret Spellings

My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.
‐‐ Crystal Chappell

My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.
‐‐ Frank Carlucci

My understanding of environmentalism, of the things that radicalize people, of the ethics and effectiveness of different kinds of social protest have definitely become more nuanced and more informed, but they aren't much clearer.
‐‐ Marshall Curry

My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.
‐‐ Rani Mukerji

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
‐‐ Bono

My understanding of this life is that you tour and play for years and years, have some longevity and a steady career. That may sound boring, but I always thought that was less depressing than being a one-hit wonder.
‐‐ Teddy Thompson

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
‐‐ Jorge Luis Borges

My unhealthiest habit is that I like eating white bread and butter. I don't know why, I just ate it as a kid. It's weird but I love it. My healthiest? I make a really good quinoa, chickpea and tahini lemon dressing salad, or I make a really bomb green smoothie.
‐‐ Courtney Eaton

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
‐‐ Evelyn Waugh

My uniform: grey suit, white shirt, grey tie and tie bar, grey cardigan and black wingtips.
‐‐ Thom Browne

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
‐‐ Caio Fonseca

My uniform is usually just comfortable clothing. Being a stylist, you spend most of the day at photo shoots covered in safety pins.
‐‐ Nicola Formichetti

My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.
‐‐ Jude Deveraux

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
‐‐ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.
‐‐ Oliver E. Williamson

My university work was not central to my education.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

My unrealized ambition is to tend my vines, produce wine, and work like an artisan. I dream of rediscovering the old traditions and customs of wine growing, not necessarily to deny the technology which we have today, but to harness it and work in harmony with nature.
‐‐ Gerard Depardieu

My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
‐‐ Rachel Bilson

My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.
‐‐ Algernon Blackwood

My upbringing as a child was very atypical.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.
‐‐ Trisha Yearwood

My upbringing has always been quite equal in terms of cultural influences. But it's unlikely that anything could prepare you for a job that involves belting out Proclaimers songs on camera, in Edinburgh and in public.
‐‐ Antonia Thomas

My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.
‐‐ Julianne Moore

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.
‐‐ Jim Carrey

My upbringing involves individuals who helped me along the way. I don't think I would be here today without that support.
‐‐ Dwyane Wade

My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a different accent but has a totally different view of the world.
‐‐ Stephen Mangan

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
‐‐ Keira Knightley

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
‐‐ Dan Fogelberg

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.
‐‐ Graham Swift

My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.
‐‐ Kelvin Yu

My upbringing was faith-based, but we believed you should love all others as you want to be loved, because everyone should be treated equally. That's helped me have an understanding of people on different journeys and in different walks of life. At the end of the day, we're all the same, because we all want to be loved.
‐‐ Nick Jonas

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.
‐‐ Denise Mina

My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other social strata. When I did, I found them colossally vital.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.
‐‐ Billy Bragg

My upbringing was very un-Hollywood... I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten by the business in those days, never a fan type - just a basic kid watching TV.
‐‐ Stephanie Zimbalist

My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the shelves. Go to look for authors that they've loved in the past and see what else those authors have written.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.
‐‐ Theo Van Gogh

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.
‐‐ Andres Serrano

My usual day is I get up around 11 o'clock and do yoga and then eat afterwards. Then I have sound check and play soccer and do running with the guys in the band after sound check, and then do the show and eat dinner after the show and usually get to bed around 3 o'clock by the time we get everybody on the bus and get rolling.
‐‐ Michael Franti

My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York.
‐‐ Richard Greenberg