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He once had his toes amputated so he could stand closer to the bar.

— Mike Harding

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to…

— Robert Towne

If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.

— Lou Brock

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

— Lou Doillon

I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full thing.…

— Joan Rivers

I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester United.

— Robbie Fowler

I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very…

— Maeve Binchy

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

— Nikki Sixx

In 1978, we adopted a new Bankruptcy Code in the United States, and a principal part of this was designed to adjust…

— Elizabeth Warren

I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like…

— Judah Friedlander

I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

— Abraham A. Ribicoff

That's part of it: You can't be a country singer-songwriter if you've never had an official heartbreak.

— Hank Williams III

I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking…

— Barkhad Abdi

I wouldn't say that I'm very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings…

— James Lafferty

I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The Marine Corps was the first father figure I had ever known.

— Art Buchwald

I'll never lose my roots. I think I'm too close to my family for that. I still make my trip back to…

— Andy Roddick

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would…

— Ann Demeulemeester

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a…

— Dick Van Dyke

I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger…

— Mike Huckabee

I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there. They'd come out…

— Frankie Valli

Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.

— Robert A. Dahl

I didn't act professionally before going to drama school. I don't know if I had the confidence. I didn't think I'd get…

— Francois Arnaud

I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite…

— Hal Sutton

I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing…

— Jeff Kinney

It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I…

— Olivia Hussey

I think, in the future, people are going to look back and say, 'I can't believe that gay and lesbian people had…

— Edy Ganem

I've been fortunate to be short my entire life. There's only one position I've ever had to play, and that's point guard.…

— Chris Paul

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it,…

— Douglas Coupland

I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always…

— Meghan Markle

I guess I would just say that in general, one of my weaknesses is that I love everything. There's too much of…

— Tim O'Reilly

I had just turned 28 and sold my first book, a travel guide for vegetarians, but I'd tell people about the day…

— James Bernard Frost

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to…

— Eminem

I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband…

— Amy Chua

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

— Sam Phillips

Mariah is a beautiful and talented person, and I've had a crush on her for as long as I can remember. Every…

— Nick Cannon

I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.

— Harvey Korman

I had one guy pretend to be me, go to a hotel room, and tell the people at the front desk that…

— Les Claypool

From a very early age, I was in tune with pop radio, and most of this listening was done driving. We had…

— Greg Graffin