All Quotes

When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
‐‐ Barry Eisler

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.
‐‐ Dean Norris

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.
‐‐ Lisel Mueller

When I was in college, I did sort of want to be a journalist. Being an actor, you kind of have the same interest. You go into a story, and you tell it from your point of view for people who aren't there. That's what an actor does with a character. But the real life is more more interesting.
‐‐ Sigourney Weaver

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.
‐‐ Lou Reed

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.
‐‐ Yash Chopra

When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels.
‐‐ Jonathan Ames

When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
‐‐ Abby Wambach

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.
‐‐ Robert Hass

When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.
‐‐ Marshall Curry

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.
‐‐ Steve Martin

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.
‐‐ Sarah Zettel

When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
‐‐ Manish Dayal

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.
‐‐ Mario Batali

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
‐‐ Elon Musk

When I was in college, I wanted to write for 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien,' and I was an intern there.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
‐‐ Ira Glass

When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.
‐‐ Elizabeth Banks

When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
‐‐ Edmund White

When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.
‐‐ Steve Martin

When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.
‐‐ Darren Criss

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll

When I was in college, I worked at a state hospital that was a dumping ground for all manner of the criminally insane and 'mental defectives' as they called them back then. It was a horrible place, like Arkham, mostly in terms of total neglect of the inmates, so I wanted to write an Arkham story.
‐‐ Ann Nocenti

When I was in college, I would go out, and I would go to these open mic nights at Stitches and Nick's Comedy Stop, so I was going to classes during the day, and then at night, I would be signing up on the lists.
‐‐ Greg Fitzsimmons

When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken

When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.
‐‐ Janina Gavankar

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.
‐‐ Tim Heidecker

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.
‐‐ Yash Chopra

When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don't think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.
‐‐ J. Cole

When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.
‐‐ Patricia Riggen

When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important.
‐‐ Rick Riordan

When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?
‐‐ Neil Strauss

When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby.
‐‐ Claire Coffee

When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.
‐‐ Lynn Swann

When I was in college, there were a couple years there where I was just not sure what to do, and it was actually my mom who suggested I take some journalism classes.
‐‐ Savannah Guthrie

When I was in college, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl. Now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl.'
‐‐ Tom Lehrer

When I was in Congress, I worked with Joe Kennedy to rename the Justice Department for Bobby, and when I retired, Teddy Kennedy sent me this Roy Lichtenstein print of his brother, inscribed: 'Bobby would have been proud of you.'
‐‐ Joe Scarborough

When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.
‐‐ Gene Wilder

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'
‐‐ Kristin Kreuk

When I was in elementary school, I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shorts. The Delia's catalog used to be my bible.
‐‐ Hayley Williams

When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.
‐‐ Mario J. Molina

When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.
‐‐ Jackie Joyner-Kersee

When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.
‐‐ Claire Bloom

When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother's definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty and finish every bite of three vegetables, one of them yellow, with every meal.
‐‐ Joan Didion

When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.
‐‐ Claire Coffee

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.
‐‐ Louis Leterrier

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
‐‐ Lars von Trier

When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.
‐‐ River Phoenix

When I was in first grade, the kids called me 'fatso.' It hurt, but the way I overcame it was to outrun every kid in the class. So I developed a thick skin, and athletics became my way of performing and being accepted.
‐‐ Billy Casper

When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
‐‐ J. Courtney Sullivan

When I was in fourth grade, I had a lot of upheaval in my life. Both of my parents remarried, and we all got new houses. That was also the year my older brother got very sick.
‐‐ Lisa Graff

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.
‐‐ Didi Conn

When I was in grad school, I had to admit I hadn't read Toni Morrison. My teacher, the novelist Colum McCann, said I had to. I read 'Beloved' and 'Song of Solomon.' Pretty incredible.
‐‐ Sunil Yapa

When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates told us that if we elected him, he would abolish homework. He promised this to the entire student body from the stage in the school gymnasium.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.
‐‐ Sandra Lerner

When I was in Greenough, Montana, I came across a bear cub. I was off this path, and I thought, If there's a bear cub, that means there's a mother bear somewhere nearby. So I doubled back. If I'd kept going, I'm sure they would have eventually found my sneakers, and that's about it.
‐‐ Al Roker

When I was in high school and college, I thought everybody could think in pictures. And my first inkling to my thinking was even different was when I was in college and I read an article about, you know, some scientist said that the caveman could not have designed tools until they had language.
‐‐ Temple Grandin

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.
‐‐ Lily Rabe

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
‐‐ Bil Keane

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.
‐‐ Joshua Lederberg

When I was in high school, I didn't feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn't use private tutors.
‐‐ Alexandra Robbins

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.
‐‐ Alan Jackson

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
‐‐ Jack Nicholson

When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts, you can't be interested in science.
‐‐ Alan Alda

When I was in high school, I got bullied through social media - on the Internet, on my Facebook. That was hard for me, and I think social media has made it easy for people to bully other people on-line because they can just post anything they want anonymously.
‐‐ Alexia Fast

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
‐‐ Dan Savage

When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.
‐‐ Young Thug

When I was in high school, I had a notebook that I filled up with rules about lying. It must have been a hundred pages long - one hundred pages of rules about lying!
‐‐ Jesse Ball

When I was in high school, I had already kind of been working in the industry and had done a couple of acting jobs. There were definitely some girls that were either jealous or thought I was a snob. I was just trying to be a teenage girl and go to high school and have fun like everybody else!
‐‐ Jillian Rose Reed

When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.
‐‐ Hunter Hayes

When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them I'd never had pizza before, and they'd bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. It's really fun.
‐‐ Misha Collins

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.
‐‐ Amy Lee

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!
‐‐ Daphne Zuniga

When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.
‐‐ Chris Kirkpatrick

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.
‐‐ Darius Rucker

When I was in high school, I remember writing a research paper, and the teacher said I should write about Langston Hughes. I felt as if I was the only black dude who didn't like Langston Hughes. He didn't seem as dark and layered as someone like Flannery O'Connor.
‐‐ Terrance Hayes

When I was in high school I saw Steven Wright, a brilliant one-liner comedian, and I thought: 'That's what I should do; I should write one-liners.' And I did. My first album is mostly one-liners.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.'
‐‐ Greg Rucka

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.
‐‐ Roma Downey

When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.
‐‐ Tricia Helfer

When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.
‐‐ Matthew Quick

When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
‐‐ Zach Galifianakis

When I was in high school, I wanted to be a counselor and I wanted to work with kids. I've been through the worst of high school. And I want to motivate people to live the best life that they can, because we're only here for one life.
‐‐ Shay Mitchell

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.
‐‐ Adam Lambert

When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
‐‐ Halsey

When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.
‐‐ Sam Claflin

When I was in high school I was a really huge 'SNL' fan. I remember the cast around the time I started watching it - Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, Cheri O'Teri, Tracy Morgan. I did research to find out how people got on the show. Their bios always said they came from an improv team, so I started taking classes.
‐‐ Aubrey Plaza

When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.
‐‐ Seann William Scott

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.
‐‐ Ellen McLaughlin

When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.
‐‐ Patrick Wang

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
‐‐ Sam Trammell

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.
‐‐ Sheryl Sandberg

When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good student and I had a lot of friends.
‐‐ Thomas McDonell

When I was in high school, I wasn't really popular. I was picked on a lot. And then I did a talent show, and kids started to tell me that I did a good job. It was the first time that my peers told me that they liked what I was doing. Something clicked, and I knew that this is what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Guillermo Diaz

When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.
‐‐ Nick Offerman

When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.
‐‐ Mike Shinoda