All Quotes

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.
‐‐ Rose Byrne

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.
‐‐ Daniel Baldwin

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.
‐‐ Mickey Spillane

Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.
‐‐ Demi Lovato

Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and people like that. Later, I heard James Brown, Otis Redding, The Drifters, The Four Aces, The Ink Spots.
‐‐ Percy Sledge

Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our house then they were arguing about music, or movies, or food.
‐‐ Ezekiel Emanuel

Where I came from, no one was a writer.
‐‐ Howard Gordon

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.
‐‐ Joe Namath

Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.
‐‐ Michelle Pfeiffer

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.
‐‐ Kristin Davis

Where I come from, all of us wanted to be footballers. We played all the time; that's all we did at school or wherever until it went dark and you couldn't see the ball.
‐‐ Sean Bean

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
‐‐ Zell Miller

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!
‐‐ Cyndi Lauper

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
‐‐ IO Tillett Wright

Where I come from, it's a little bit like England. We start from the theater, and we do films a bit on our free time. The history of making films in Scandinavia is so old, it's like the oldest. The Nordic film industry started before Hollywood in Stockholm in Copenhagen.
‐‐ Michael Nyqvist

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

Where I come from, out in the suburbs, I didn't know anyone who was a professional actor. And girls that looked like me? No girls like that were on TV.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson

Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
‐‐ Eden Robinson

Where I come from, the block become your daddy.
‐‐ Lil Wayne

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.
‐‐ Chaske Spencer

Where I come from, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to become an actor.' Talk like that and they think you're crazy.
‐‐ Ellen Pompeo

Where I come from, you don't really dance, you know. I think I was at the age, where, I suppose, I wanted to do what all me friends were doing. I gave up dancing for a while, and then I realised I wasn't as good at football as I thought I was.
‐‐ Tristan MacManus

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.
‐‐ Abel Ferrara

Where I'd like to see more women is at the executive table.
‐‐ Cynthia Carroll

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.
‐‐ Peter Coyote

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.
‐‐ Pete Sampras

Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.
‐‐ David Karp

Where I fit in is confusing to me.
‐‐ Sheryl Crow

Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.
‐‐ Graham Norton

Where I get my energy is: 'How can I make it better?'
‐‐ Sara Blakely

Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.'
‐‐ Jeff Ament

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.
‐‐ LeBron James

Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.
‐‐ Lisa Loeb

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life.
‐‐ Frankie Valli

Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill

Where I grew up in the North-east, the community there, and the way people relate to one another, goes very deep. But I don't define myself as a Northerner in that I don't live in the North.
‐‐ Gina McKee

Where I grew up in Vermont, there is no municipal garbage removal. You have to bring your trash to the dump every weekend. Something like three hours on Saturday morning, the entire town goes in. It is actually a very efficient place to do politics. I would go to the garbage dump, get petitions signed, give out literature, talk to voters.
‐‐ Robby Mook

Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.
‐‐ Ryan Giggs

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.
‐‐ Denis Leary

Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands.
‐‐ Shea Hembrey

Where I grew up was a place called Salford, which was the industrial heartland of Manchester. And where I lived in Salford, I could walk to the center of Manchester within about 20 minutes. So I lived really close to the center.
‐‐ Bernard Sumner

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.
‐‐ Brad Pitt