When I was 7 years old, I announced that I was going to write a book about pollution. I didn't get around to it until I was 29, but I always recognized that pollution was a theft. That it was a way of stealing something from the public - the common earth.
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Related But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER Leadership is something I was born with. CARMELO ANTHONY I knew I was going to be in 'Spectre,' but I didn't realize I was a 'Bond girl' ... STEPHANIE SIGMAN I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in a blender. LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star. JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead. GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny. BUDDY HACKETT I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinn... NATHAN MYHRVOLD When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' b... MADISON DAVENPORT My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 ye... DAMON WAYANS, JR. I was born to travel and write verse. THEOPHILE GAUTIER I've always been conservative. I was born that way. RALPH HALL I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless... PATRICIA HEATON I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball. BARRY BONDS I am not afraid... I was born to do this. JOAN OF ARC I was born in August, no July, 1908. SATCHEL PAIGE I was born in the technology era. MALUMA I was born with an evil face. BARRY SLOANE I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed. DAN FUTTERMAN I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration. LINCOLN CHAFEE By ancestry, I was born to rule. NELSON MANDELA I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo. CAROLYN KIZER I was born in Homestead, Florida. CHRISSY METZ I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. STEVE CASE I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. JESSE JACKSON I was born into a family of preachers. DAVID SOUL I was raised on NBC television. DAN HARMON Hey, I was raised in the church. CHEECH MARIN I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that... VANILLA ICE I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b... B. B. KING I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies. MARIA GRAZIA CUCINOTTA When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into i... BUZZ OSBORNE I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint... CHRIS STAPLETON When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ... SOPHIE KINSELLA I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes ... KEVYN AUCOIN When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist... RAY BRADBURY I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. ... LESLEY GORE I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English tea... TONY DUNGY I love people. I was born loving people. BETSY PALMER Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55. CHARLES KEATING I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody e... S. J. ROZAN I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language. DANIEL ALARCON The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote. KIM ALEXIS When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. LYNDON B. JOHNSON I avoided the spotlight when I was a kid. I always knew, 'Hey, it wasn't me. I didn't do... DONALD TRUMP, JR. I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like ever... JAMES MCGREEVEY I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I could... MAHESH BABU I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books... PATRICIA POLACCO I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it,... BOBBY ORR Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn&... LANCE HENRIKSEN Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player... PHIL KNIGHT I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitel... CHANDRA WILSON I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was p... ZOLA JESUS Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I wa... SEAN BEAN I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 yea... STANLEY KUBRICK I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized... WILLIE AAMES I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me. D. A. PENNEBAKER To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. WILSON MIZNER I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church. QUINTON AARON I was born as a soldier and will die as one. MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida. KATE UPTON I was born and bred to be a great flirt. CYBILL SHEPHERD I was born with a fierce need for independence. MICHELLE WILLIAMS I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl. AMBER HEARD As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded. DEBORAH SAMPSON Beirut is where I was born and raised. REEM ACRA I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. J. PAUL GETTY I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian. STEVEN SEAGAL I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife. LIZ PHAIR I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head. CHARLES OLSON I was raised to be some kind of artist. ELLAR COLTRANE My mom says I was born screaming. ELLE KING I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the w... LINDA RONSTADT When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted t... CHRISTINA MILIAN I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn... MAEVE BINCHY I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a... SAM NEILL I grew up in the middle of dairy country in Wisconsin, about as far from any major metropolitan area... DAVID WROBLEWSKI I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I ... CORY MONTEITH It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I ... PAULO COELHO I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would wri... BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, thes... HARVEY PEKAR I always look back at when I didn't have a dream, when I didn't have a spirit. I didn't ... BOB BEAMON But I don't only get recognized for 'Friday the 13th.' I was on a TV show called' I&... BETSY PALMER I was done with everything but the project when I was about 14 years old. I just didn't get around t... ADAM ARMSTRONG I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was ho... JAMES FREY I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that'... TAYLOR SWIFT I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou... BRIAN JACQUES My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The onl... RUMER WILLIS It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, th... REBECCA FERGUSON I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to... ALAN HOVHANESS My family was well off but not rich. I spent the four years I was an undergraduate working on the be... PAUL SAMUELSON When I landed the first 900 at the XGames, it was just - it was a personal achievement. It was somet... TONY HAWK I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in colle... ALICE WALKER I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but... RONNIE MONTROSE
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ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times... ROBERT KENNEDY The way it works is that if I bring another partner to the table, I maintain control of the account.... ROBERT KENNEDY All attempts at mutual education are important to help us grow. It widens our vision. ROBERT KENNEDY We are still evaluating what this decision means and what the dollar effect is on the state. But it'... ROBERT KENNEDY I think it belongs to the family and we can get rid of it any way we want to. ROBERT KENNEDY the worst administration on the environment in our history. ROBERT KENNEDY It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business. ROBERT KENNEDY President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to th... ROBERT KENNEDY In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activitie... ROBERT KENNEDY I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics al... ROBERT KENNEDY It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occup... ROBERT KENNEDY Let no one be discouraged by the belief that there is nothing one man or one woman can do against th... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ROBERT F. KENNEDY Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portio... ROBERT F. KENNEDY Laws can embody standards; governments can enforce laws--but the final task is not a task for govern... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Our Gross National Product now is over 800 billion dollars a year.
But that Gross National Pro... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies. ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?' ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the pas... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedo... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a m... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that th... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our herita... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ... ROBERT F. KENNEDY Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ROBERT F. KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. ROBERT F. KENNEDY We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels--local, ... ROBERT F. KENNEDY There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never wer... ROBERT F. KENNEDY It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a m... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that th... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Don't get mad, get even. ROBERT F. KENNEDY Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy. ROBERT F. KENNEDY Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio... ROBERT F. KENNEDY I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves ... ROBERT F. KENNEDY The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulge... ROBERT F. KENNEDY Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against... ROBERT F. KENNEDY There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never wer... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY He knows all the facts, and he's against all the solutions. ROBERT F. KENNEDY Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the ... ROBERT F. KENNEDY Justice delayed is democracy denied. ROBERT F. KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies. ROBERT F. KENNEDY Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio... ROBERT F. KENNEDY Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a m... ROBERT F. KENNEDY The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against in... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not. ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, ... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"N... ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the ... ROBERT F. KENNEDY