All Quotes

Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.
‐‐ Carolyn Mackler

Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.
‐‐ Bernhard Goetz

Prior to Box, I was a professional wiffleball player and then a professional poker player.
‐‐ Dylan Smith

Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.
‐‐ John Robinson

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.
‐‐ John Battelle

Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a lot. I went to North Carolina School of the Arts; my speech teacher... that was one of the things we really had to work on over the years, and thankfully I think it finally worked.
‐‐ Chris Parnell

Prior to having babies, I thought - I thought I was so busy, and now I realize just how ignorant I was.
‐‐ Kerri Walsh Jennings

Prior to high school, I played a lot of neighborhood football.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prior to Magellan, due to the fact that we knew it was so hot on Venus, we thought that the rocks at the surface would behave more plastically, more like Silly Putty than like solid rock in the way that we think of it, like the rocks that I'm sitting on.
‐‐ Ellen Stofan

Prior to my arrival at the Crowne Plaza in Indianapolis, my agent and I decided that it would be best not to participate in any drills at the combine. We wanted to wait until my pro day at Virginia, where I could limit the distractions and just focus on being my best.
‐‐ D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.
‐‐ Kiki Smith

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.
‐‐ Fred Upton

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
‐‐ Katherine Dunn

Prior to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - the first one in 2003 - I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I'm saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.
‐‐ Tom Hanks

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk.
‐‐ John Ashcroft

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.
‐‐ Go Ah-sung

Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more directly to helping change the world.
‐‐ Lynn Jurich

Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.
‐‐ Benny Green

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.
‐‐ Gil Gerard

Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal.
‐‐ Kevin Richardson

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.
‐‐ Don Kardong

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
‐‐ Karin Slaughter

Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics.
‐‐ George Akerlof

Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.
‐‐ Robert Mueller

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.
‐‐ Chris Chocola

Prior to 'The Shield,' basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was a collective, 'Hey, if they can do that, why can't we?' from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one.
‐‐ Michael Chiklis

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
‐‐ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to 'Tokyo Drift,' the iconic perception of Asians in Hollywood films has been either the Kung Fu guy, the Yakuza guy or some technical genius. It used to be such a joke, to be laughed at rather than with.
‐‐ Sung Kang

Prior to working for Fox, I worked for ABC and NBC, spent a lot of time at CNN, and almost ended up at CBS. I worked for a bunch of local stations in Los Angeles and had a talk-radio show at KABC for six years. In other words, I'm fortunate enough to have been around, and Fox News is the best place I've ever worked.
‐‐ Susan Estrich

Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.
‐‐ Robert Pozen

Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.
‐‐ Dennis Hastert

Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only do one thing, what would it be? And you can't rationalize the answer, and you can't attach the one thing to some other things. It's just the one thing.
‐‐ Jeff Weiner

Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
‐‐ Safak Pavey

'Prison Break' really changed me to somebody that can put butts in seats.
‐‐ Robert Knepper

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
‐‐ Michel Foucault

Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
‐‐ Ja Rule

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
‐‐ Suge Knight

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
‐‐ Yael Stone

'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
‐‐ Okky Madasari

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.
‐‐ Jonathan King

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
‐‐ Adam Ant

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.
‐‐ Trevor Phillips

Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi and Idi Amin look like Sunday-school teachers.
‐‐ Evel Knievel

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.
‐‐ Craig Charles

Prison works.
‐‐ Theresa May