Adopted Quote by Stephan Kinsella

For me I was always a smart nerdy kid. I wasn't the smartest and I wasn't the nerdiest, but I was a smart nerdy…

— Junot Diaz

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were…

— Malcolm Gladwell

When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience…

— Edward Norton

My characteristics as a scientist stem from a non-conformist upbringing, a sense of being something of an outsider, and looking for different perceptions in…

— Peter C. Doherty

Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.

— Viggo Mortensen

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

— Helen Garner

I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might be part…

— James A. Michener

The influences I had were all people with versatile interests who had a large world view.

— Robin Lopez

Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my particular sensibilities.…

— Laurie Graham

One of the great things my grandparents and grandparents taught me was, there are those who don't have your best interests at heart.

— Wendell Pierce

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

— Peter Dinklage

I think what I bring to the table overall is a sense of my own individuality, especially in the urban-male spectrum of what is…

— Miguel