I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere. — Lindi Ortega Copy Share Image
There were a lot of kids from Puerto Rico at my high school in Florida; people always assumed I was Puerto Rican.… — Torrey DeVitto Copy Share Image
People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college,… — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I grew up in the middle of dairy country in Wisconsin, about as far from any major metropolitan area as you can… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
I think something that really shocked me as a nanny were parents who sort of assumed the worst from the get-go. People… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been… — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters. — Teller Copy Share Image
I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle. — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
If I was discovered by anyone, it would be Stephen O'Neil, who saw me in a play at Williamstown and introduced me… — Logan Marshall-Green Copy Share Image
More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn't. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary,… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
