All Quotes

When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

When I left my Catholic school, I was around 10 or 11 years old, and it started to unravel for me there. Kids pick up on things if you're interested and inquisitive. I was seeing things that were not in line with what I'd been taught about Jesus. It didn't jive with me.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend's mother said, 'How could you leave a sure thing like Lehman to do a silly carpool startup?' That was three months before Lehman went bankrupt.
‐‐ John Zimmer

When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.
‐‐ Darrell Hammond

When I left New York, not a lot of shows were happening there, but 'Golden Boy' is such a New York show.
‐‐ Stella Maeve

When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
‐‐ Olusegun Obasanjo

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.
‐‐ Jim Jarmusch

When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.
‐‐ Eve Best

When I left politics in the early Eighties and started writing and recording, my idea was that I could have an influence further down into other generations. That Natives could come into the culture through arts and music.
‐‐ John Trudell

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
‐‐ Fernando Flores

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.
‐‐ Luke Evans

When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.
‐‐ Jonathan Pryce

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.
‐‐ Matt Lucas

When I left school, I went and bought my own sound system, and me and my dad would just go along to all the pubs and clubs around the local area and just sort of do our own little cover shows.
‐‐ Kyla Reid

When I left school, I went backpacking around the world for two years.
‐‐ Georgia Salpa

When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.
‐‐ Ben Nicholson

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.
‐‐ James D'arcy

When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.
‐‐ Andy Stern

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.
‐‐ Hugh Masekela

When I left South Africa there were 10 million people - when I came back there were more than 40 million. I had to learn how to get to the highways because when I left where there were no highways.
‐‐ Hugh Masekela

When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.
‐‐ John Sebastian

When I left the house to become an actress, my mother literally flung her body across the door and said, 'You're killing me!' It was a very strict household. That can be okay, but there was also no nourishment, either.
‐‐ Loretta Swit

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.
‐‐ Chris Ofili

When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me.
‐‐ Edward Brooke

When I left the Senate in January 2013, I decided to take a full year away from all media interviews, editorial articles, and direct political activities.
‐‐ Jim Webb

When I left the show, the fans were so amazing in terms of the outpouring of support and continued support all that time whatever ways they could be in touch with me.
‐‐ Alice Barrett

When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.
‐‐ Alexander Chee

When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance of new stimuli combined with a lack of guidance forced me to develop my own approaches to learning and juggling.
‐‐ Timothy Ferriss

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.
‐‐ Lou Holtz

When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity.
‐‐ George Pataki

When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't.
‐‐ Jacques Pepin

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.
‐‐ Tom Rachman

When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long.
‐‐ Kevin McCloud

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
‐‐ Sam Neill

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
‐‐ Sammy Hagar

When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.
‐‐ John Kasich

When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.
‐‐ Mitch Leigh

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

When I let my hair down, I just let it down. It's more comfortable in my helmet.
‐‐ Troy Polamalu

When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.
‐‐ Casey Affleck

When I like something, I love it, but then I'll let it go completely.
‐‐ Nicholas Hoult

When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.
‐‐ Jakob Dylan

When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble. I don't only listen to the guitar player.
‐‐ Paul Weller

When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'
‐‐ Taylor Swift

When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.
‐‐ Emmanuel Jal

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
‐‐ Langhorne Slim

When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.
‐‐ Eric Betzig

When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.
‐‐ John Hodgman

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
‐‐ Jonathan Davis