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NICOLAS KIEFER A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it o...
DAMIAN LEWIS I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first...
SID BERNSTEIN Bowling was my first love. Beating my mother for the first time when I was 13 or 14 was a major acco...
JEROME BETTIS My mentality is just a little different now, because in high school I had to do a lot of scoring, .....
MARIO CHALMERS When it first happened, it was a big deal. When it happened again it was big, too, but I felt I play...
CHRISTI NARDOZZI I never looked at it that way. I didn't play high school football, so I had a late start. I was youn...
BEN DAVIDSON
My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolw... DON RICKLES I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first...
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VING RHAMES When I was at drama school, I was totally broke, and a lot of my mates had jobs and were financially...
JAMES NESBITT I was getting tired from playing both sides of the ball and returning punts. I beat my guy. It was a...
JOSEPH STONER It was very tough. You don't ever realize it's your last game. I cried to my mom last night.
KRISTEN CAMPOS All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, an...
DICK CAVETT As soon as they announced it, I knew I broke the record. My goal at the time was 'I'm going to win t...
A.J. ELLISON
And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back ... BRANDI CHASTAIN 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. ...
ANDRA DAY
I traded my 2002 Silverado in for the Trailblazer, and after my second fight, I got a win bonus. It ... STIPE MIOCIC
I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at sch... MANU BENNETT It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high ...
MARY CHENEY I always, always hated it, ... but I was always the only kid on the team who could do it. So my coac...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT I took dance from a very early age, although my first recital, I remember refusing to go onstage. I ...
PHILLIPA SOO
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, ... JIM BROWN I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ...
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at ... LINDSAY FOX I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y...
CHARLIE EBERSOL I've never been so star struck in my life as when I met President Obama and Bill Clinton... and ...
MEGAN HILTY I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. ...
DICK GEPHARDT I thought it would be a high-scoring game, but I didn't know it would be just us on the high-scoring...
VICTOR ANDERSON
My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly im... EDMUND HILLARY It's a big possibility. My freshman and sophomore years of high school, I felt that [Connecticut] wa...
LUOL DENG
Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished... JODI PICOULT It was difficult. I didn't know one person at my high school, ... I learned to drive on the San Jose...
DON HILL
When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went... ZENDAYA When I touched the wall and looked at the scoreboard, I knew I had the record. It was amazing. I thr...
BRANDON GOLDMAN When I was 15, I went on a cricket tour of Zimbabwe with my school. My defining memory of it was str...
RUPERT EVANS I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high...
ICE CUBE It really was a good night for scoring. ... I knew I was hitting my sets. I didn't know I was gettin...
MEAGAN LEWIS I used to cheerlead in high school, and I had the biggest crush on one of my teammates' brothers...
JOSIE LOREN
I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science bef... MARIO J. MOLINA
I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it... ZACH JOHNSON
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD
My greatest moment as a jock occurred when I was 14 and playing punch ball in front of my house on A... JERRY REINSDORF
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP
I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night perfo... MIKE NICHOLS Shannon is on track to set a new school, in-career scoring average record. I am going to miss both t...
BUD NASON I wasn't really watching a lot of other divers I was just trying to zone in on my game. I was hit...
DAVID PIERCY
My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older ... FRANK IERO
I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDon... SHARON STONE I used to be on dance team in high school; it was called drill team in Texas. And when I started doi...
STEPHANIE BEATRIZ
When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or e... MARIO J. MOLINA I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed v...
BIG SEAN When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio...
AGNES OBEL When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and ...
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I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and s... BILL HADER
... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t... DEYTH BANGER
I can't have 3, ... so I just put a 1 in front of it. Also, I was a big Dan Marino fan growing up an... BABE RUTH
I was disappointed over my dismissal, given that it was at a crucial stage of the game and I had wor... RICKY PONTING
By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were get... ANNETTE BENING
When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's hear... LORNA LUFT I was very pleased with the play of Laura Jones and Lindsey Hamilton too. Pushing the ball up and La...
GUS SIMPSON
I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by drivin... PATRICIA BRIGGS My role changed. I was the play-maker again. In college I usually had the toughest defensive assignm...
CLINT JOHNSON I had never thought much of Rutgers; I was going to go to Northwestern, Pittsburgh or Wake Forest. M...
RYAN NEILL When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, chil...
MAJ SJOWALL In closing, addressing the allegations by Commissioner Price that I was present on the night in ques...
JULIUS PATTERSON
I think I went through my phase of feeling sort of invisible when I left my small hometown in Canada... JUSTIN CHATWIN I don't really care what record it was, so I was happy it was the relay. It was my last swim in high...
BRITTNEY IVERSON
My parents... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after hig... DAVID A. R. WHITE I was feeling it today, doing whatever was necessary to win. We've got a lot of guys who can get it ...
BRANDON BOWMAN I went to bed the first night knowing I had to win or else that was it. And I also knew it was again...
DEWITT DRISCOLL
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first ... WILMA RUDOLPH Since the war started, I was doing that song every night onstage and couldn't get it out of my head....
BUDDY MILLER I had a fifth-grade education when I decided to leave home, ... My mother gave me $9, and I took it ...
LARRY MARSHALL
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
