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I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ![]()
Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe...
HELEN OYEYEMI You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when ...
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie ...
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when ...
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intel...
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ Listen, nitwit, what good will it do you to know whether I am "sincere" or "insincere"? What does th...
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul ...
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ![]()
P. Diddy gave me his valet ticket once... because he thought I was the valet lady.
SELENA GOMEZ I thought I'd feel relieved, but I didn't feel anything at all. I was just numb. I thought I was goi...
ALAN HALL In general, I avoided giving lectures or attaching myself while abroad to a university. To learn wha...
THEODORE SCHULTZ The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th...
DALEEN IRSHAID![]()
I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. H...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I...
JAMES MCGREEVEY I was thinking more of my blessings instead of my problems.
LYNN DAVIS![]()
[The 44-year-old singer, who was diagnosed more than a year ago, is now cancer-free.] Instead of tak...
MELISSA ETHERIDGE I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and ...
USHER My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a go...
MAX VON SYDOW![]()
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of peop...
H. L. MENCKEN![]()
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of peop...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more to...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a g...
ALEX BORSTEIN My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
W. E. B. GRIFFIN![]()
I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I...
NICOLAS CAGE![]()
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectu...
V. S. NAIPAUL Those lectures were just terrible, ... I would draw this little rat who was on four legs. Whatever t...
STEPHAN PASTIS When I was young I had all the advantages. My father worked for Howard Hughes, we lived in Bel Air. ...
JAN BERRY![]()
I love my dad and respect him and miss him, but I never hung around my father that much because my d...
ROBERT DAVID HALL![]()
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of peop...
H. L. MENCKEN Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now
~ANYA SUNDQUIST~![]()
I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, kn...
SARAH DESSEN I feel really special. I went to a lot of work to feel this good. More work than I've ever gone thro...
TINA RICHARDS I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.
FAITH PRINCE![]()
There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost m...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. I made the decision. I want you more than I want heaven, more than I want to be an angel. I love you...
J.L. SHEPPARD![]()
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not disting...
JULIA CAMERON The first thing I see was the contact, and I go to my left side and the ball went on the right. That...
ALFONSO SORIANO![]()
I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't fin...
NICOLAS CAGE![]()
I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience...
CHARLIE HUNNAM![]()
When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but ...
DEONTAY WILDER![]()
According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS![]()
It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone ...
ALICE HOFFMAN![]()
Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth)
ELVIS PRESLEY![]()
I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12,...
LIAM PAYNE I was pretty reckless. I went for the adventure instead of the comfort; that was always my policy. I...
HARRY MANX I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went...
IMELDA STAUNTON The sentiment was (barricades) have done more harm than good. Things were kind of quiet until the ba...
BILL FOSTER![]()
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a v...
G. W. F. HEGEL More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
JAMES EARL JONES Instead of writing my rules, I followed his. And that’s when I knew it all went wrong.
DOMINIC RICCITELLO![]()
I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood di...
TONY HAWK![]()
I was in my bed scrolling through Instagram. It had been about a month since my audition. And Marvel...
TOM HOLLAND![]()
I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might par...
ANGELINA JOLIE![]()
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in d...
FEISAL ABDUL RAUF![]()
I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished some...
NADIA COMANECI![]()
I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that wa...
GAYLE FORMAN When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock...
ANNA SUI![]()
There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, ...
JAMES CORDEN i didnt understand why my past realationship were so bad now i know so when we meet we had something...
WOW I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through.
ART MODELL![]()
I was not very happy to have to change insurance plans. Instead of scrapping it, which I considered,...
LUIS MIGUEL![]()
I was not very happy to have to change insurance plans. Instead of scrapping it, which I considered,...
LUIS MIGUEL I really thought I was gonna die. I told the doctors, 'Let me go instead of running up this big bill...
CARL JACKSON![]()
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, a...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU![]()
In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON![]()
it is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didnt
MARTIN VAN BUREN No human being on this earth should go through what my son went though. I just wish they could have ...
ROBERT ANDERSON![]()
Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went t...
TOM HIDDLESTON My junior year coach and I worked up a strategy where I just go into the woods and take it out. I do...
DEVIN CORNWALL![]()
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in wh...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH In France, the image I had was of a shy girl - a poor lonely girl and not too good-looking. When I w...
FRANCOISE HARDY This whole season was a blessing. To go through what I went through last year, it was just so frustr...
BRIAN URLACHER When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when...
KENNY TROUTT My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
MADI DIAZ I went from being a marathoner to a guy who couldn't run much more than a quarter mile without being...
ERIC OVERTON![]()
My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song.
UNKNOWN To inspire those who lack inspiration, is the greatest gift that I can give to my fellow man. More t...
ENRIQUE VEGA![]()
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if h...
JODI PICOULT I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understan...
PETER CAREY![]()
Everywhere I go, I am The Doctor, and everyone smiles at me - they are pleased to see Doctor Who, wh...
PETER CAPALDI![]()
I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wa...
PETER DIAMANDIS I was trying to split them more instead of hurrying to the outside,
DARREN SPROLES (I need) to relax. I went out and tried to do too much, trying to show everybody that I was ready, i...
CHAD HUTCHINSON![]()
I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
BILL WYMAN![]()
When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went...
ZENDAYA![]()
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had be...
DYLAN THOMAS I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightc...
LAINIE KAZAN![]()
I wasn't a cheerleader or in the choir. I didnt have loads of friends.
GWEN STEFANI I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by the...
STEPHEN STILLS If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended ...
MARAT SAFIN The longer the game went on, the more I thought we'd go on to win it.
DAVE ANDERSON I was always Missy, never Melissa. I went to college, and I thought it was so much more interesting ...
MELISSA MCCARTHY When I went up to Michigan State, its presentation was more aggressive than Kent State and academics...
DAVID WILLIAMS![]()
As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.)
[Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.]
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY I have never received an award or honor that will be more cherished than this because it was given b...
TIM SMITH I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I...
FRANCES O'CONNOR I get a lot more playing time than I have in the past. I think it has made me a lot better player, g...
ABBY ARLEDGE![]()
I think we have to go to the next step. I want to communicate to the people, more than to show my wo...
ISSEY MIYAKE I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to ...
RACHEL KUSHNER
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ
Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe... HELEN OYEYEMI You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when ...
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie ...
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when ...
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intel...
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ Listen, nitwit, what good will it do you to know whether I am "sincere" or "insincere"? What does th...
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul ...
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ
P. Diddy gave me his valet ticket once... because he thought I was the valet lady. SELENA GOMEZ I thought I'd feel relieved, but I didn't feel anything at all. I was just numb. I thought I was goi...
ALAN HALL In general, I avoided giving lectures or attaching myself while abroad to a university. To learn wha...
THEODORE SCHULTZ The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th...
DALEEN IRSHAID
I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. H... CHRISTINA AGUILERA I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I...
JAMES MCGREEVEY I was thinking more of my blessings instead of my problems.
LYNN DAVIS
[The 44-year-old singer, who was diagnosed more than a year ago, is now cancer-free.] Instead of tak... MELISSA ETHERIDGE I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and ...
USHER My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a go...
MAX VON SYDOW
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of peop... H. L. MENCKEN
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of peop... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more to...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a g...
ALEX BORSTEIN My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
W. E. B. GRIFFIN
I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I... NICOLAS CAGE
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectu... V. S. NAIPAUL Those lectures were just terrible, ... I would draw this little rat who was on four legs. Whatever t...
STEPHAN PASTIS When I was young I had all the advantages. My father worked for Howard Hughes, we lived in Bel Air. ...
JAN BERRY
I love my dad and respect him and miss him, but I never hung around my father that much because my d... ROBERT DAVID HALL
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of peop... H. L. MENCKEN Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now
~ANYA SUNDQUIST~
I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, kn... SARAH DESSEN I feel really special. I went to a lot of work to feel this good. More work than I've ever gone thro...
TINA RICHARDS I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.
FAITH PRINCE
There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost m... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. I made the decision. I want you more than I want heaven, more than I want to be an angel. I love you...
J.L. SHEPPARD
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not disting... JULIA CAMERON The first thing I see was the contact, and I go to my left side and the ball went on the right. That...
ALFONSO SORIANO
I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't fin... NICOLAS CAGE
I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience... CHARLIE HUNNAM
When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but ... DEONTAY WILDER
According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ... ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS
It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone ... ALICE HOFFMAN
Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth) ELVIS PRESLEY
I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12,... LIAM PAYNE I was pretty reckless. I went for the adventure instead of the comfort; that was always my policy. I...
HARRY MANX I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went...
IMELDA STAUNTON The sentiment was (barricades) have done more harm than good. Things were kind of quiet until the ba...
BILL FOSTER
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a v... G. W. F. HEGEL More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
JAMES EARL JONES Instead of writing my rules, I followed his. And that’s when I knew it all went wrong.
DOMINIC RICCITELLO
I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood di... TONY HAWK
I was in my bed scrolling through Instagram. It had been about a month since my audition. And Marvel... TOM HOLLAND
I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might par... ANGELINA JOLIE
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in d... FEISAL ABDUL RAUF
I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished some... NADIA COMANECI
I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that wa... GAYLE FORMAN When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock...
ANNA SUI
There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, ... JAMES CORDEN i didnt understand why my past realationship were so bad now i know so when we meet we had something...
WOW I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through.
ART MODELL
I was not very happy to have to change insurance plans. Instead of scrapping it, which I considered,... LUIS MIGUEL
I was not very happy to have to change insurance plans. Instead of scrapping it, which I considered,... LUIS MIGUEL I really thought I was gonna die. I told the doctors, 'Let me go instead of running up this big bill...
CARL JACKSON
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, a... HENRY DAVID THOREAU
In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man. RALPH WALDO EMERSON
it is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didnt MARTIN VAN BUREN No human being on this earth should go through what my son went though. I just wish they could have ...
ROBERT ANDERSON
Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went t... TOM HIDDLESTON My junior year coach and I worked up a strategy where I just go into the woods and take it out. I do...
DEVIN CORNWALL
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in wh... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH In France, the image I had was of a shy girl - a poor lonely girl and not too good-looking. When I w...
FRANCOISE HARDY This whole season was a blessing. To go through what I went through last year, it was just so frustr...
BRIAN URLACHER When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when...
KENNY TROUTT My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
MADI DIAZ I went from being a marathoner to a guy who couldn't run much more than a quarter mile without being...
ERIC OVERTON
My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song. UNKNOWN To inspire those who lack inspiration, is the greatest gift that I can give to my fellow man. More t...
ENRIQUE VEGA
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if h... JODI PICOULT I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understan...
PETER CAREY
Everywhere I go, I am The Doctor, and everyone smiles at me - they are pleased to see Doctor Who, wh... PETER CAPALDI
I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wa... PETER DIAMANDIS I was trying to split them more instead of hurrying to the outside,
DARREN SPROLES (I need) to relax. I went out and tried to do too much, trying to show everybody that I was ready, i...
CHAD HUTCHINSON
I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones. BILL WYMAN
When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went... ZENDAYA
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had be... DYLAN THOMAS I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightc...
LAINIE KAZAN
I wasn't a cheerleader or in the choir. I didnt have loads of friends. GWEN STEFANI I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by the...
STEPHEN STILLS If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended ...
MARAT SAFIN The longer the game went on, the more I thought we'd go on to win it.
DAVE ANDERSON I was always Missy, never Melissa. I went to college, and I thought it was so much more interesting ...
MELISSA MCCARTHY When I went up to Michigan State, its presentation was more aggressive than Kent State and academics...
DAVID WILLIAMS
As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.)
[Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.] PHILIP JAMES BAILEY I have never received an award or honor that will be more cherished than this because it was given b...
TIM SMITH I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I...
FRANCES O'CONNOR I get a lot more playing time than I have in the past. I think it has made me a lot better player, g...
ABBY ARLEDGE
I think we have to go to the next step. I want to communicate to the people, more than to show my wo... ISSEY MIYAKE I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to ...
RACHEL KUSHNER
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a B... 