All Quotes

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.
‐‐ Nick Clegg

When I became majority leader in Washington, I was interviewed constantly. I was always happy to talk to the press, but I drew the line at the Sunday morning talk shows on television. After a full work week consisting of long days and frequent late evenings, I insisted on keeping my weekends free for my family and friends.
‐‐ Thomas P. O'Neill

When I became mayor of New York City, I had a $2.4 billion deficit. And everybody wanted me to raise taxes. I said, 'If I raise taxes, I'll drive people out of New York City, and then I'll be raising taxes again.' So what I did was I cut expenses by 15 percent.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute, the world changed for me.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

When I became Miss World, movie offers started coming to me in India.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.
‐‐ Tom Glazer

When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

When I became obsessed with Winston Churchill, I wrote a book about Churchill. What a joy it was to write that book!
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

When I became of service to other people I stopped worrying about my weight so much.
‐‐ Judith Light

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.
‐‐ Billy Collins

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
‐‐ Yoshihiko Noda

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

When I became religious, it was full-force for me. And, through the lifestyle of being out on the road with non-Jewish musicians, in non-Jewish nightclubs and going all over the world - getting out of the shtetl - opened me up to having experiences that other religious men might not have to think or worry about.
‐‐ Matisyahu

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.
‐‐ Robert Redford

When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.
‐‐ Anthony Minghella

When I became the first woman to represent the state of Texas in the United State Senate, it was with the help of a lot of women - and a large number of men, too.
‐‐ Kay Bailey Hutchison

When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history.
‐‐ Joe Torre

When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.
‐‐ Dee Dee Myers

When I become president, it will be about helping the 100 percent.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

When I become prime minister, I'm going to buy one of those Margaret Thatcher handbags, and I'll bang it on the table and demand my money back from the government for past bad services.
‐‐ Pim Fortuyn

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.
‐‐ Joan Van Ark

When I began 'All Our Names,' I did so wanting to create parallel narratives between Africa in the nineteen-seventies and America during that same period.
‐‐ Dinaw Mengestu

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
‐‐ Henry Flynt

When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.
‐‐ Kevin Nealon

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
‐‐ Ian Mcewan

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
‐‐ David McCullough

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.
‐‐ Jane Goodall

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
‐‐ Gerry Mulligan

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
‐‐ Peter Weir

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
‐‐ Paul Simon

When I began modelling in my late teens, I started to earn a lot of money very, very quickly, but I'd never been shown how to manage it properly.
‐‐ Marie Helvin

When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.
‐‐ Ann Hood

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.
‐‐ Jonny Lang

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.
‐‐ Ayman Odeh

When I began my search for the perfect skin care to fight the aging process, I noticed that my sensitive skin was reacting horribly to any product I used.
‐‐ Connie Sellecca

When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.
‐‐ Jonathan Haidt

When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the structure of DNA molecules, something which I would never have dreamed of doing before I started.
‐‐ Alfred Hershey

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
‐‐ Ty Cobb

When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don't think worked, though I love jazz.
‐‐ John Fuller

When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.
‐‐ Andres Segovia

When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.
‐‐ Marian Seldes

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
‐‐ Anne Carson

When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.
‐‐ Joy Harjo

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.
‐‐ Paul Theroux