Kumail Nanjiani quote: "My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was Shiite, and you would whisper, 'Hey,' or you would see someone at the mosque, and you'd be like, 'Hey, that kid's Shiite!' There was a lot of tension, a lot of violence in Karachi between Shiites and Sunnis."

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stori...
DICK SMOTHERS

About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS

You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN

If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era...
FAT JOE

In junior high, I was picked on for being the small skinny kid who enjoyed being in drama. All the d...
BLAKE JENNER

When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like,...
BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN

Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it w...
J. D. VANCE

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and...
NORTON JUSTER

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to...
MARY ROACH

'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's be...
NAT WOLFF

I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN

If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, &...
DAVID GERROLD

When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of j...
KEVIN NEALON

I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in...
KRISTEN STEWART

I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism bac...
RUSSELL PETERS

In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of reli...
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS

When we were working on 'Taxi to the Dark Side,' we would purposefully not show it to certai...
ALEX GIBNEY

I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT

I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES

A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids ...
ERICH BERGEN

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And whe...
ERIC MCCORMACK

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - a...
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS

When he would give you direction, it was not sitting in a chair saying, 'Hey, babe! Do this and ...
LANA TURNER

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else f...
TRENT REZNOR

I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dyi...
MADISON DAVENPORT

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A ...
PAULEY PERRETTE

The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would re...
DAN WHELDON

When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the in...
EDDIE TRUNK

It's like, backstage at 'SNL,' like, if you come back after a show or something, or a lo...
VANESSA BAYER

I wasn't a bad kid. I was a good kid. But I had gotten in a lot of fights 'cause in the neig...
TONY DANZA

I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL

Macaroni and cheese was my mother's special dish. She'd also make jambalaya and dirty rice a...
TYLER PERRY

I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I...
KATY PERRY

That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my ...
AASIF MANDVI

It's wild to be visiting New York and crossing the street and having someone yell out at me, ...
GRAHAM PATRICK MARTIN

Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal fa...
PARIS JACKSON

When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of c...
LARRY THE CABLE GUY

I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles g...
HOWARD E. WASDIN

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you...
RICK MERCER

I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go t...
SHAILENE WOODLEY

Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON

Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my ...
CAMERON MATHISON

I remember bringing some of my other friends to our table, and everyone at our table would look at t...
ZACK GREINKE

Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN

There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid star...
AUTRE NE VEUT

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

There's a lot of things that you can do where you don't have to have a lot of money. Going t...
GEORGIA HOLT

When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and...
VANESSA LENGIES

When I was younger, I'd be like 'Would you like to go to dinner' and the girl would be l...
BEN SAVAGE

I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid....
CARLENE CARTER

When I was a little kid, it was not uncommon for a cousin or an uncle, before they would even say &#...
RICK MORANIS

I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is...
SETH GREEN

I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were ...
DEMETRI MARTIN

I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Asta...
QUEEN LATIFAH

The Internet is the most dangerous parking lot imaginable. But if you were crossing a mall parking l...
JAMES COMEY

My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You kno...
J. R. MARTINEZ

I would be terrified if Bill Maher was like, 'Hey, do you want to come on the show?' I would...
CONSTANCE ZIMMER

When I was a kid, I would do Andrew Dice Clay jokes for my siblings. Like, we'd be on vacation, ...
NICK KROLL

With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA

I would never be like, 'Hey, I'm fat!' or, like, be psyched if somebody calls me fat in ...
SARAH BAKER

My son, before he went to school, he'd eat pretty much everything. Then as soon as he went to sc...
TOM COLICCHIO

When someone recognises you or wants an interview, you think, 'You know, maybe I've done som...
ANA IVANOVIC

It used to be that you would go in to see a CEO, and you would ask them, 'Is your company for sa...
HENRY KRAVIS

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.'...
CLARENCE THOMAS

We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckles...
DACRE MONTGOMERY

Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this ama...
GRAHAM MOORE

It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell yo...
PARKER POSEY

Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?&...
NIKKI REED

I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out ...
JACK FALAHEE

As a kid, my parents would always listen to a lot of Beatles, Queen, Elvis. My mom was born and rais...
ALESSIA CARA

As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And wh...
TROMBONE SHORTY

I was watching TV one day, and I'm like, 'How did those people get on TV? I'm gonna try ...
BENJAMIN STOCKHAM

If my son came to me years from now and told me, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'That's...
VIVIENNE MING

When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Auss...
JONATHAN LAPAGLIA

Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y...
JIM DIAMOND

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, th...
JULIANNE MOORE

I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they we...
KATE MOSS

It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who...
FEFE DOBSON

When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there...
HARVEY PEKAR

When I was a kid, we would build pillow forts. My pillow fort was always like Ice Station 9 in Antar...
CONRAD ANKER

I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom wa...
ELLE KING

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you ca...
LENA DUNHAM

I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they&...
ADAM BEACH

There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some...
NIECY NASH

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