My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
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Related When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach. VICTORIA PRATT I could have played 48 minutes. I have never had problems with my conditioning before. For a coach t... ALLEN IVERSON I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions... NADER AL-MASRI When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doc... OTTO PREMINGER Nobody loves me, nobody cares, Nobody picks me peaches and pears. Nobody offers me candy a... SHEL SILVERSTEIN It was like a dream. It is a dream that came true. I lived the emotions. I closed my eyes twice to r... CRISTIAN ZORZI My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use... ED WEEKS If I get nervous, I just look over my shoulder at the people behind me. Nobody could be worried with... BASTIEN RIPOLL I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me. FETTY WAP Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I w... ZHANG ZIYI Growing up, my dream was to play Division I basketball. I also knew that one day I would like to be ... ED CONROY When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers off... AUDREY TAUTOU I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all... REBEL WILSON I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding becau... BODE MILLER I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean mys... ALICE ENGLERT I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and... DOROTHY HAMILL When I was a kid, I went to school in a small town. I wanted to play basketball - that was my dream. BETH SWENSON The death of one threatens the future of many. NOBODY I remember when I got into Juilliard - which was just crazy to me, that I would be studying at a sch... SAMIRA WILEY At drama school nobody cared what shape my nose was and if I felt down I could be someone else for t... NIKKI SANDERSON I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest r... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It... VALERIE SIMPSON None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like t... LAUREN CONRAD I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting im... RITA HAYWORTH I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobo... KIRK DOUGLAS My coach told me to slow down and enjoy the rest of race. He told me nobody could catch me anymore. KATI WILHELM I had to, ... Tie my suit up, tie my tie and just get downstairs to my car as fast as I could, so no... NATE ROBINSON My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dea... MARY SHELLEY My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dea... My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dea... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I went through a lot in my life that scarred me pretty good. I built a wall around myself to the poi... JAKE ROBERTS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a... C. C. H. POUNDER All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rin... VICTORIA AVEYARD I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. He pump-faked and then went up like nobo... JOSH POWELL When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went... ZENDAYA I just had faith in Coach Ken and I knew he'd get me someplace where I wanted to be. I didn't even s... JAMUAL WARREN I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambr... LUCY GRIFFITHS I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tri... TIM HARDAWAY Just remember that when nobody else was there for you I was. And when nobody else gave a damn I... LIL WAYNE William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound i... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name.... JOE DAVIS I take a little bit from everybody and add that to my life to make me, me. I wanna be nobody else bu... NAYVADIUS CASH My dad was the football coach for the high school a few years ago and I wanted to play football with... ALICIA KEYS I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anythi... BRYCE HARPER Division I basketball was my dream in Poland. Not too many people get the chance to come to a school... DARIA MIELOSZYNSKA When I left school, I went and bought my own sound system, and me and my dad would just go along to ... KYLA REID My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boa... JACK DAVENPORT He was brilliant for Argentina. I remember at half-time everyone was saying that nobody could get an... WAYNE ROONEY All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to sch... MARCIA GAY HARDEN My jaw hurts a little bit. It was a good hit. All I had to do was concentrate on making sure I held ... DARRELL JACKSON Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomp... OSHO Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER A girl phoned me and said...Come on over there's nobody home. I went over... Nobody was home! UNKNOWN I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook. HENRY HILL When I got to the finish line, I saw that nobody was close to me. I was happy for me and for my team... CRISTIAN ZORZI Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do th... NATE ROBINSON When I came down to St. Croix to see Timmy eight or nine years ago, nobody said a word to me (about ... GREGG POPOVICH When I came down to St. Croix to see Timmy eight or nine years ago, nobody said a word to me (about ... GREGG POPOVICH I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly gett... REBECCA FERGUSON My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about... MAGGIE WHEELER I had never played organized football before in my life. I was tossing a football at George Lane Par... CHAD MOORE Nobody has a better recruiting situation than I have. I get to recruit down there and stay at my mom... CURT NEWSOME My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which w... CARMEN BUSQUETS After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clicked, and I just realized, '... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. I thought, 'Oh, this is incredible, because that's where I was the previous day.' So, a lot of diffe... ED HUTSON When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester ... ROSEMARY MAHONEY I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I w... DEV HYNES I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football. STEPHEN CHOW I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my step... PATTIE BOYD A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was... RODNEY DANGERFIELD A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over. There's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody wa... RODNEY DANGERFIELD Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Man, I always felt like high school football was where I needed to be. Having three boys helps that ... DOUG PEDERSON We went out really fast. When I saw the split I figured nobody would be there (with me). Assistant c... COLLEEN WETHERBEE the fact that nobody liked me at school began to fade out of my mind like blue magic marker reminder... MARILYN MANSON She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my ow... NICHOLAS SPARKS A girl called me once and said "come over, nobody is home!" I went there and she was right, nobody ... ANONYMOUS 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 remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh... JENNIFER NIVEN When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed... DANIEL ESPINOSA When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find th... ALBERT CLAUDE I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God. CHERYL JAMES I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get a... MAUREEN FORRESTER I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and ... JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I rememb... CAMERON MACKINTOSH When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to be... PAT CONROY You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remem... JEFF FOXWORTHY I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the as... CHUCK PAGANO Nobody wants to hear that you met Harry Truman... I met Harry Truman... But you know what I mean? No... JOAN RIVERS By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, l... GLENN BECK My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen througho... BILL GOLDBERG I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person. MIKE LEE I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional base... SHEMAR MOORE I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract be... ALEXA RAY JOEL My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playin... RICKEY HENDERSON What was she like?" I tell the truth. "She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding... NICHOLAS SPARKS
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HARRY CARAY I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to ... HARRY CARAY Holy cow! HARRY CARAY It might be, it could be... it is! A home run! HARRY CARAY Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an... HARRY CALLAHAN I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that thei... HARRY CALLAHAN A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything. HARRY BROWNE Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they kn... HARRY BROWNE What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently... HARRY BROWNE You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - ... HARRY BROWNE Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world... HARRY BROWNE Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their ow... HARRY BROWNE There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - ki... HARRY BROWNE You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there. HARRY BROWNE Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government ... HARRY BROWNE When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them s... HARRY BROWNE Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to m... HARRY BROWNE In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was pr... HARRY BROWNE I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, relea... HARRY BROWNE Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while... HARRY BROWNE It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken fo... HARRY BROWNE The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative. HARRY BROWNE Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while ... HARRY BROWNE A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not j... HARRY BROWNE Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life b... HARRY BROWNE I'm a machine man, and I head a machine. HARRY BRIDGES Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they... HARRY BRIDGES There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action. HARRY BRIDGES Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the tr... HARRY BRIDGES I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the ... HARRY BRIDGES There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people ... HARRY BRIDGES This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spiri... HARRY BELAFONTE