Were Quotes · Page 71

I don't know if I would have the same take on world matters and social issues if I were not gay.

— Don Lemon

I'm a decent table tennis player, but if you were to put me up against any of the guys you see on…

— Matt Kuchar

I wrote 'Oath' for Cher Lloyd because there were really no best-friend anthems out there. Not only did she love it, she…

— Becky G

I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights…

— Jim Lovell

My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

— Kelly Ripa

Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after…

— Alice Dreger

I didn't really want to inject myself into anything political. A lot of people were asking me at the time about Jay…

— Norm MacDonald

Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei…

— Carroll Quigley

I've always had a passion for giving back. It's a family tradition that comes from my devout parents. They were always giving…

— Dikembe Mutombo

I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy…

— Pedro Pascal

All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.

— Vladimir Putin

When I moved to Sheffield and went to a secondary modern in the Seventies, there were certain challenges: if you've got a…

— Sebastian Coe

I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around…

— Steve Martin

I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while…

— Charlie Cox

If I were in a situation where I had to meet a pack of wolves and my family is with me, I'm…

— Jon Seda

There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America... hundreds of…

— Edward Ball

What fun would it be if we were perfect in everything that we did? Football is not about that.

— Joe Flacco

My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar.

— Sebastian Coe

My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in…

— Michael Franti

Many of us are walking around living smaller lives than we're meant to live. Don't allow yourself to dream smaller than you…

— Hill Harper

I lived five years in the Midwest, and I loved it. The people were so nice. The people were so open.

— John Irving

There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it…

— Adam Driver

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

— Brandon Flowers

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.

— Bryan Robson

The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

If you went to school in Nashville, you were aware of all those '60s rockabilly people.

— Kim Dickens

When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call…

— Steve McQueen

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied…

— John Grierson

My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.

— Dan Hill

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so…

— Robert Herjavec

One of the crucial things to the story of 'Harry Potter's' success is just how well everyone got on. There were never…

— Matthew Lewis

Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea.

— Dave Rowntree

I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The…

— Geoffrey Boycott

“Crazy is such a misunderstood term. I like to think that I march to the beat of my own drummer.”

— Eva Sloan

I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.

— Jim Messina

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

— James Tobin

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were…

— George Pataki

When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't…

— Alison Jackson