I Started Quotes
2738 I Started quotes by 2133 unique authors
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When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
— J. B. Smoove
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I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have…
— Carine Roitfeld
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I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And…
— Carine Roitfeld
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I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my…
— Mario Testino
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When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was…
— Kevin Mitnick
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear…
— Alan Greenspan
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I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.
— Jason Mraz
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When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their…
— Armando Iannucci
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When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not…
— Daniel Alarcon
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After Scour, I started a company called Red Swoosh. The idea was to take those litigants who sued us for a huge amount of money…
— Travis Kalanick
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I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.
— Idina Menzel
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I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in…
— Idina Menzel
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I started writing lyrics out of desperation. I was broke and wondering where my next job, my next meal was coming from, although I had…
— Sheldon Harnick
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I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
— Daniel Breaker
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Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex…
— Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
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When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.
— Chad Hurley
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At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed.…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I…
— Samantha Shannon
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I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going…
— Natasha Trethewey
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I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world…
— Matthew James Thomas
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When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs…
— James Mercer
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I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered... Because I started with paying for things myself with…
— Alexa Von Tobel
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It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over those,…
— Clinton Sparks
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