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I ARE I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON![]()
When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all...
BLACK ELK 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![]()
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I love...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL I knew I was getting close to the end. I was losing my vision. My feet and legs were swollen. ... Th...
ZEKE SMITH Before it was decided that I was going to be adopted, my mother was going to abort me. I was born wi...
LINDSAY PEARCE![]()
I felt it cramp up on me. I tried to start over and regroup, but I just stopped before I hurt it mor...
GARY SHEFFIELD![]()
I was running super slow. Chris thought I was done. Then one day at the end of February, I woke up a...
ROB GRONKOWSKI My legs felt like Jell-o out there. I did not wrestle well at all. I just had to wake up.
JEFF SOLOMON![]()
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
JESSE JACKSON![]()
I went to one doctor who told me I wasn't exercising enough. I was so exhausted, I couldn't ...
ALANA STEWART My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recal...
RORY FREEDMAN They hurt me so bad to the point where crying was too mild of an response, that I couldn't bare to s...
PAIGE LOVE ROSE(PAIGE LIPSEY)![]()
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that m...
JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. My husband called from work; I had just gotten up. When he told me what happened I turned on the tel...
CRAIG DAVID 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 I was tired, but I had to fight through it. My team needed me, and when my name was called I stepped...
BRANDON HEATH I wore white kabuki makeup, had blue-black hair. At one point, I shaved an inch and a half around my...
MELISSA MCCARTHY I had a nightmare. So my friend asked me what it was. I told him it was him sleeping with my mom. He...
MUNTAZIR M.![]()
I had the kind of family where I was told it was my job to study. They would work out the finances.
ALEXANDER ACOSTA![]()
My thighs were huge; they were like rock! Growing up, I was really athletic, and I had a very athlet...
GIGI HADID![]()
When my agent told me I had an audition for 'Friar Tuck,' I burst out laughing. It actually ...
DAVID HAREWOOD The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it ...
FRANCESCO TOTTI![]()
I think someone else told him, ... He didn't even know who I was. It made me feel a little proud. I ...
ERYKAH BADU![]()
I want to thank my mom, Brenda Rose. My heart, the reason I play the way I play, just everything. Ju...
DERRICK ROSE I was telling some college coaches before the game that in the (Public School Athletic League) the c...
EPIPHANNY PRINCE My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not ...
GRANDMASTER FLASH It was only a time trial, just me and the water. I don't think it was hard because I had it in my mi...
BRANDON GOLDMAN![]()
I had been a fan of Gene Wilder's for many years, but the first time I saw him in person, my hea...
GILDA RADNER I was lying next to my poorly son in hospital when he phoned and told me what had been going on. I d...
CAROLINE WAUGH I think people thought I was crazy for leaving Mexico when I had any project I wanted falling at my ...
KARLA SOUZA![]()
But it just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was hoping I was going to be back as soon as possible. Then they told me, before I got the MRI res...
STEVE YOUNG![]()
I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asp...
SUSANNA KAYSEN I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like ...
TAMALA JONES I was told by my grandmother?s cousin who was an actress in the ?20s ? she was 86 and I was 4 at the...
XENIA SEEBERG![]()
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 The one time I had a moment of clarity was when my mom told me my soul was dying. I remember just sc...
ANDREA PUMPER I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My ...
BEBE NEUWIRTH It was probably between my legs. I don't think it was in my lap. I never had it.
MARTIN BRODEUR![]()
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of my...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL![]()
When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me u...
MAGIC JOHNSON I felt like I was in a zone and every time I got the ball, it was going in. My team was feeding off ...
ANTHONY SLACK![]()
When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped fl...
ANTHONY LICCIONE![]()
When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figur...
SAMANTHA FOX it felt increasingly, as I became more whole, that I had made it all up, and that I was a phoney. I ...
CAROLYN BRAMHALL It felt great. I was tired of the slump. I had confidence and my team encouraged me to just keep on ...
CHADD MOORE![]()
I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a...
KELSEA BALLERINI It wasn't a question of if I was doing it. I was doing it. They told my mother I had talent and she ...
JANE CHOC![]()
Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG I was tired, but I had to suck it up and go back in and do my job.
EDDIE SILAVONG The first day I got back in my patrol car, I was scared. It was the same beat. I had to face the dem...
ERIK EISSINGER![]()
I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and...
JERRY SPINELLI![]()
I realized the universe had consumed my whole entity with its divine sensation of eternal bliss. All...
ABHIJIT NASKAR I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI What I'm experiencing right now is relief. When I read Rob [Bowman]'s liner notes, I felt, 'He's say...
BETTYE LAVETTE![]()
The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I w...
YUVRAJ SINGH I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an opportunity to get national tele...
DON CORNELIUS![]()
I lived with my auntie and my cousin when I was growing up, and they always wore black, and I though...
ROMY MADLEY CROFT![]()
My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and t...
QUEEN LATIFAH I had to work graveyard, which I usually don't -- I was tired. I played awful -- had one of my worst...
CRAIG ZIELIN My swing felt great so I was firing at every pin no matter where it was. I had a few chances but it ...
ANTHONY WALL It was my idea to come to America. It was a tough decision. I had to give up my friends and family, ...
CAMILLE MOUTE![]()
It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straigh...
CHAZ BONO I thought it was strange that I won all this money, but they needed my account information? If I've ...
NICOLE NELSON I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
NATALIA KILLS![]()
I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they ...
EVA GREEN Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part...
CHERIE CURRIE When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was t...
NATALIE ZEA![]()
The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG![]()
It was one of the most sublimely exhilarating moments of my life. I was half a step in front of the ...
PAUL AUSTER![]()
I missed the bus. They changed the schedule. It was every 10 minutes. Today it was every half-hour. ...
JOHNNY WEIR I knew that we were down by 14 points and my team needed me out there. Halftime, I told them that it...
CARMELO ANTHONY I thought it was sprained at first, ... Then I tried to get up and walk on it, and I felt sick to my...
JOE NEWTON I was surprised when they told me it was 35 years. I thought it was only 32.
BILL BEAN At about 1 p.m., I got a call and they told me my item was up next. The price was at $2,000 before y...
KAREN SHEMONSKY![]()
In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too lon...
WHITNEY HOUSTON![]()
I was born. It was easy. My mother did all the hard work.
KATIE MACALISTER![]()
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in...
TOOTS THIELEMANS I was really nervous. I couldn't handle it being my last meet. Before my last race, I was in the war...
BRIELLE WHITE I was just feeling it. Every time I touched the ball, I felt great. I was just taking open shots and...
DEVRON BOSTICK You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap.
"Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay wit...
LUCY CHRISTOPHER![]()
I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was blac...
ISSA RAE![]()
When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought s...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I love my job. I wake up in the morning, and I am ready to come to work, ... I guess when I wake up ...
GEORGE COLEMAN My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to stud...
COCO LEE I was working hard over the summer to get my grades straight to maintain eligibility when I noticed ...
TREMELL JACK![]()
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 ARE I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON
When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all... BLACK ELK 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
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I love... ELIZABETH WURTZEL I knew I was getting close to the end. I was losing my vision. My feet and legs were swollen. ... Th...
ZEKE SMITH Before it was decided that I was going to be adopted, my mother was going to abort me. I was born wi...
LINDSAY PEARCE
I felt it cramp up on me. I tried to start over and regroup, but I just stopped before I hurt it mor... GARY SHEFFIELD
I was running super slow. Chris thought I was done. Then one day at the end of February, I woke up a... ROB GRONKOWSKI My legs felt like Jell-o out there. I did not wrestle well at all. I just had to wake up.
JEFF SOLOMON
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. JESSE JACKSON
I went to one doctor who told me I wasn't exercising enough. I was so exhausted, I couldn't ... ALANA STEWART My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recal...
RORY FREEDMAN They hurt me so bad to the point where crying was too mild of an response, that I couldn't bare to s...
PAIGE LOVE ROSE(PAIGE LIPSEY)
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that m... JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. My husband called from work; I had just gotten up. When he told me what happened I turned on the tel...
CRAIG DAVID 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 I was tired, but I had to fight through it. My team needed me, and when my name was called I stepped...
BRANDON HEATH I wore white kabuki makeup, had blue-black hair. At one point, I shaved an inch and a half around my...
MELISSA MCCARTHY I had a nightmare. So my friend asked me what it was. I told him it was him sleeping with my mom. He...
MUNTAZIR M.
I had the kind of family where I was told it was my job to study. They would work out the finances. ALEXANDER ACOSTA
My thighs were huge; they were like rock! Growing up, I was really athletic, and I had a very athlet... GIGI HADID
When my agent told me I had an audition for 'Friar Tuck,' I burst out laughing. It actually ... DAVID HAREWOOD The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it ...
FRANCESCO TOTTI
I think someone else told him, ... He didn't even know who I was. It made me feel a little proud. I ... ERYKAH BADU
I want to thank my mom, Brenda Rose. My heart, the reason I play the way I play, just everything. Ju... DERRICK ROSE I was telling some college coaches before the game that in the (Public School Athletic League) the c...
EPIPHANNY PRINCE My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not ...
GRANDMASTER FLASH It was only a time trial, just me and the water. I don't think it was hard because I had it in my mi...
BRANDON GOLDMAN
I had been a fan of Gene Wilder's for many years, but the first time I saw him in person, my hea... GILDA RADNER I was lying next to my poorly son in hospital when he phoned and told me what had been going on. I d...
CAROLINE WAUGH I think people thought I was crazy for leaving Mexico when I had any project I wanted falling at my ...
KARLA SOUZA
But it just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was hoping I was going to be back as soon as possible. Then they told me, before I got the MRI res...
STEVE YOUNG
I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asp... SUSANNA KAYSEN I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like ...
TAMALA JONES I was told by my grandmother?s cousin who was an actress in the ?20s ? she was 86 and I was 4 at the...
XENIA SEEBERG
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 The one time I had a moment of clarity was when my mom told me my soul was dying. I remember just sc...
ANDREA PUMPER I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My ...
BEBE NEUWIRTH It was probably between my legs. I don't think it was in my lap. I never had it.
MARTIN BRODEUR
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of my... ELIZABETH WURTZEL
When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me u... MAGIC JOHNSON I felt like I was in a zone and every time I got the ball, it was going in. My team was feeding off ...
ANTHONY SLACK
When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped fl... ANTHONY LICCIONE
When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figur... SAMANTHA FOX it felt increasingly, as I became more whole, that I had made it all up, and that I was a phoney. I ...
CAROLYN BRAMHALL It felt great. I was tired of the slump. I had confidence and my team encouraged me to just keep on ...
CHADD MOORE
I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a... KELSEA BALLERINI It wasn't a question of if I was doing it. I was doing it. They told my mother I had talent and she ...
JANE CHOC
Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared... RUTH BADER GINSBURG I was tired, but I had to suck it up and go back in and do my job.
EDDIE SILAVONG The first day I got back in my patrol car, I was scared. It was the same beat. I had to face the dem...
ERIK EISSINGER
I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and... JERRY SPINELLI
I realized the universe had consumed my whole entity with its divine sensation of eternal bliss. All... ABHIJIT NASKAR I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI What I'm experiencing right now is relief. When I read Rob [Bowman]'s liner notes, I felt, 'He's say...
BETTYE LAVETTE
The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I w... YUVRAJ SINGH I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an opportunity to get national tele...
DON CORNELIUS
I lived with my auntie and my cousin when I was growing up, and they always wore black, and I though... ROMY MADLEY CROFT
My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and t... QUEEN LATIFAH I had to work graveyard, which I usually don't -- I was tired. I played awful -- had one of my worst...
CRAIG ZIELIN My swing felt great so I was firing at every pin no matter where it was. I had a few chances but it ...
ANTHONY WALL It was my idea to come to America. It was a tough decision. I had to give up my friends and family, ...
CAMILLE MOUTE
It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straigh... CHAZ BONO I thought it was strange that I won all this money, but they needed my account information? If I've ...
NICOLE NELSON I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
NATALIA KILLS
I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they ... EVA GREEN Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part...
CHERIE CURRIE When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was t...
NATALIE ZEA
The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG
It was one of the most sublimely exhilarating moments of my life. I was half a step in front of the ... PAUL AUSTER
I missed the bus. They changed the schedule. It was every 10 minutes. Today it was every half-hour. ... JOHNNY WEIR I knew that we were down by 14 points and my team needed me out there. Halftime, I told them that it...
CARMELO ANTHONY I thought it was sprained at first, ... Then I tried to get up and walk on it, and I felt sick to my...
JOE NEWTON I was surprised when they told me it was 35 years. I thought it was only 32.
BILL BEAN At about 1 p.m., I got a call and they told me my item was up next. The price was at $2,000 before y...
KAREN SHEMONSKY
In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too lon... WHITNEY HOUSTON
I was born. It was easy. My mother did all the hard work. KATIE MACALISTER
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in... TOOTS THIELEMANS I was really nervous. I couldn't handle it being my last meet. Before my last race, I was in the war...
BRIELLE WHITE I was just feeling it. Every time I touched the ball, I felt great. I was just taking open shots and...
DEVRON BOSTICK You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap.
"Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay wit...
LUCY CHRISTOPHER
I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was blac... ISSA RAE
When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought s... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I love my job. I wake up in the morning, and I am ready to come to work, ... I guess when I wake up ...
GEORGE COLEMAN My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to stud...
COCO LEE I was working hard over the summer to get my grades straight to maintain eligibility when I noticed ...
TREMELL JACK
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
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. 
I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed. 
Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that... 
I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. A... 
I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see. 
My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg. 
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none i... 
I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madnes... 
To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 an... 
I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good. 
They wore their strange beauty like war paint. 
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first conditio... 
Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. 
I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every yo... 
Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately underm... 
An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged... 
I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to... 
I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy. 
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. 
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. 
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of governme... 