Wladimir Klitschko quote: "I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing."

We have a lot of young talent but some of the older kids have jumped up a lot. Out of the 14, we're ...
MIKE TOMOOKA

Looking back, it's completely ludicrous. But at the age of 13 or 14 I took this all very seriously. ...
JAMES SHERRY

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at m...
RODNEY BROOKS

I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science ...
AARON PATZER

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost m...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was r...
DAYA

I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I ...
T. J. PERKINS

My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being ...
ABBEY CLANCY

I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertatio...
JANE MCGONIGAL

In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with m...
JOHN HARSANYI

I made a good swing at 14, but it came out to the right,
DAN FORSMAN

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward y...
JODIE FOSTER

I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scienti...
DAN SHECHTMAN

After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitati...
WOLFGANG KETTERLE

These are not my works; these are just prints of the originals. Really, what we're showing here is t...
ABELINA GALUSTIAN

I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we ...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lowe...
EVGENY MOROZOV

It’s this or nothing at all.
R.J. GROVES

I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that expe...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

When I was a kid, I was roaming through Glastonbury Festival at eight years old, on my own. I say &#...
ALFIE ALLEN

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble...
JOHN ENTWISTLE

My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your p...
AUGUST WILSON

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

Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that ...
URSULA BURNS

I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.
CRAIG VENTER

As you grow up, you realize from the age of 14 or so, you grow extra emotions somehow, and I think H...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent ...
IRIS CHANG

My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would ...
PATRICIA POLACCO

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. ...
EVEL KNIEVEL

I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Col...
CAROL W. GREIDER

The Commonwealth Games holds a very special place in my heart. It was my first major international c...
DANYON LOADER

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and th...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-t...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD

We hear it a lot - my 14-year-old daughter loves your network. I don't watch it, but it's really for...
GARTH ANCIER

I thought, 'Oh, this is incredible, because that's where I was the previous day.' So, a lot of diffe...
ED HUTSON

I see a test, and a successful one at that, through the 14-year high.
JACK SPITZ

I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked ...
NOLAN GERARD FUNK

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my famil...
BRIAN BLESSED

I don't have any memory of not playing. In my family, you either played or got left behind.
DANNY WICKER

My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher edu...
GERTRUDE B. ELION

I first went into social services, and when I did my Ph.D. I looked at intellectual diversity rights...
CARY FOWLER

Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qu...
ANATOLY KARPOV

My points in this game came throughout the game. Usually I have big spurts in quarters either in the...
SMUSH PARKER

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as...
JOHN OLIVER

Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through...
ADRIAN PETERSON

(Almost) everybody is of age, ... When the Scream Tour started we were 14 or 15. Bow (Wow) was, like...
OMARION

I just went to a funeral of a 14-year cancer survivor March 21, my father passed away from cancer at...
WAYNE SUMNER

I never liked the Friday The 13th movies, or any of that. It's just not my bag. It's a genre that I ...
GEORGE A. ROMERO

I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the ...
GINA BELLMAN

Those guys carried me through. I had a lot of tough three-set matches this week, and they were my le...
JAMES BLAKE

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
FATS DOMINO

In this type of field where you have the top four or five players in the world and you've got many f...
ALICIA MOLIK

I knew I had my work cut out because he is a good player. There's a lot of pressure on these matches...
JIMMY WHITE

At some point, I fell in love. Shortly thereafter, I got my heart broken. Sniff, sniff. And I realiz...
LAUREN KATE

I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's &...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I don't smoke or drink, I walk 5 miles a day and I'm on a nearly vegetarian diet. In some ways, my g...
JOE ESZTERHAS

I had been pursuing a Ph.D. in political science when my National Guard unit was sent to Iraq. Eight...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH

You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanish...
BRANDON SANDERSON

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was...
WILBUR SMITH

I'm a Ph.D. in economics, and so you analyze every situation uniquely because every internationa...
DAVE BRAT

I have seen a lot of disasters. Basically, out on assignment, you could be working 14 or 16 hours a ...
NANCY HAYES

When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D....
CAROLINE LAWRENCE

My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite un...
AMITABH BACHCHAN

[At age 14, he became a ward of the local Childrens Aid group.] My aunt died when I was away at a ca...
CHUCK ALLEN

My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lo...
USHER

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know w...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY

I kind of struggled as a 10-year-old to make out what it meant that Martin Luther King and Bobby Ken...
TIM KAINE

Technology is a nerdy field. That's why I called myself a 'geek.' It requires a lot of t...
WEILI DAI

I had doors slammed in my face as a 14-year-old because my boobs were too big,
JESSICA SIMPSON

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the crim...
BARACK OBAMA

Falling in love with you was out of my control, but I do have a say in what happens next. And, I wil...
LIZ NEWMAN

I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano te...
AUDRA MCDONALD

I love volleyball. I trained until I was 14, which was when I left home. My dream was to be either a...
GISELE BUNDCHEN

This girl, about 14, came to see me and I said, 'What are you doing out so late?'
WYNTON MARSALIS

If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the ...
TOM SCHOLZ

I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is u...
MICHAEL ROOKER

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
J. AUGUST RICHARDS

My daughter loves romances. She's a Ph.D student at George Washington University, and when my fi...
ANN MAXWELL

I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself ...
TOM KRISTENSEN

I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, yo...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so ma...
LILLY SINGH

At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I fee...
HERMANN MAIER

The fact that we're only at 14 percent is pretty good. They're looking at the record of Jim Doyle an...
WENDY SCATTERGOOD

After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public...
ERIN CUMMINGS

I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph....
GARIK ISRAELIAN

I am going and I don't know where I am going. I leave you searching for answers. When I get there, i...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

Criticism is going to come while you're injured, but you just have to work through it, stay mentally...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK

There's something magical about film, it's the ultimate for me, because it's kind of per...
PAUL MERTON

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the ...
MAX LUCADO

I was the youngest guy in the union. At 14! A pianist around there who became my mentor for a little...
JEROME RICHARDSON

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.
JAMES GARNER

I didn't understand my loneliness until I moved to Tokyo. I moved at 14. I came alone, without Mommy...
AYUMI HAMASAKI

Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived...
JOHN GURDON

Sometimes work is a bit slow, and I always wanted to be a princess at Disneyland. There were 1,500 o...
CHRISTA B. ALLEN

I was a hockey player. I played hockey forever. That was my life and my job until I got injured, so ...
WYATT RUSSELL

After I sat out those two years, made a comeback to injure myself midway through last year when ever...
BEN TUNE

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician ...
ALVIN LEE

Last year, [when] I first came into this league, I didn't know really how this league was or how the...
DEMETRIS BENDROSS

[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., un...
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