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“I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.”

Years Heard Honor Hatred Destructive Bitterness Nelson Love And Forgiveness

Author:Dick Gephardt

“I had the house salad - a terrific concoction of iceberg greens, cold blue cheese and warm red bacon. If I were a county, I would have made it my flag.”

Society Food Salad

Author:Amor Towles

Source: Rules of Civility

“I had the human rights life, and I had the family business life.”

Humans Rights Human Rights Business Life

Author:Sanjay Rawal

“I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.”

Trying Years Two Ideas Shows Half Tvs Solutions Years Ago Two Years Two Years Ago

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed.”

Knows Writing Ideas Next Boys Down And Sat Wizards

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.”

Should Ideas Player Beats Convinced Brilliant Good Ideas Brilliant Ideas Tangled

Author:Ted Lindsay

“I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.”

Years Ideas Would Be Lying Wonderful Years Ago Fundamentals Mathematician Physicist Newton

Author:David Chalmers

“I had the idea that there were secret laws of the universe that could explain the baffling human reality around me, and that philosophers maybe had the key to them.”

Humans Ideas Reality Law Universe Secret Keys Philosopher

Author:Catherine Wilson

“I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.”

World Children Two Ideas War Real Reality Streets Clubs Boxing Real World Imaginary Burned Realism Other Worlds Orphan Two Worlds Imaginary World

Author:Norman Mailer

“I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.”

People Ideas Treated Detached

Author:George Clarke

“I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.”

Ideas Instruments Anthology

Author:David Toop

“I had the illusion of conversing with a fellow being without a barrier, without a steel door, without a black hood over my head . . . I have never, I think, impressed upon you how almost impossible I find it to communicate with anybody.”

Communication Illusion Lonely Metaphor Barriers Iris Murdoch Outsider Cut Off

Author:Iris Murdoch

Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.”

Art School Painting Impression Cartoon Art School

Author:Roz Chast

“I had the impulse to look over my shoulder, to make sure he was not striding across the sky already, his gilded arrow pointed at my heart. But there was something in me that was sick of fear and awe, of gazing at the heavens and wondering what someone would allow me. 'Come in,' I said, and led him through my door.”

Fear Women Feminism Mythology Awe

Author:Madeline Miller

Source: Circe

“I had the insane misconception that I was ready to conquer the known universe with Tähtivaeltaja. No mercy!”

Universe Known Ready Mercy Insane Conquer Misconception

Author:Toni Jerrman

“I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'”

Heaven Becoming Glory Intention Astronomy Endeavor Theologian Glory Of God

Author:Johannes Kepler

“I had the interesting experience of having lived and worked for six years in China with Procter & Gamble, and that just changes, I think, your whole perspective in living overseas and living in a country like China.”

Thinking Years Country Whole Interesting Perspective Six China Gamble

Author:Steve Daines

“I had the kid [on "Fences" ] who understudied me so I could stand back and think about shots so he had to learn the blocking and everything. I'd come in early sometimes, and they 'd be in there rehearsing and working on their stuff. I didn't want them to feel like, "Oh these are people who can't be touched." We're all working actors; we're all trying to get better.”

People Thinking Want Feels Trying Sometimes Kids Actors Stuff Shots Block Get Better Touched Fence Rehearsing

Author:Denzel Washington

“I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.”

Thinking World Children Persons Facts Stories Feelings Felt My Own Habit Conversation Ambition Lonely Everyday Isolated Imaginary Everyday Life Facility Making Up Undervalued Lonely Child

Author:George Orwell

Source: A Collection of Essays

“I had the luck at 18 to become assistant to Christian Dior, and to succeed him at 21 and to meet with success from my first collection in 1958. That will be 44 years in a few days. Above all it was Christian Dior who was my master and who was the first to reveal the secrets and mysteries of haute couture.”

Years Firsts Christian Secret Christianity Mystery Masters Succeed Luck Collections Assistants Couture Dior Haute Couture

Author:Christian Dior

“I had the luck of having an obedient body.”

Body Luck Obedient

Author:Burt Lancaster

“I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.”

School Mother Three Father Language Parent Luck Educated Spokes Italian Host Dutch

Author:Michelle Hunziker

“I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.”

Fingers Rings Grades Grandfather Hung My Grandfather Sandwiches Garlic Cafeteria Sardines

Author:Rachael Ray

“I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.”

Fall Stronger Versions Luxury Falling Down

Author:Sheryl Crow

“I had the luxury of knowing what I wanted to do. So I just sat on the bed and came up with a plan for myself: "I have to go to the Edinburgh Fringe. But I don't have the confidence to do a production there because I've never gone before, and I don't even know how to get there or what to do once I get there. So I will just act as if I do have the confidence to go to the Edinburgh Fringe. I'll just borrow confidence from a future version of myself. Once I've been to the Edinburgh Fringe and performed a show there, then I will have the confidence to go to the Edinburgh Fringe. I will go to the bank manager of confidence (in some part of my brain) and I will borrow that confidence from the future, and then I can wear it like a cloak, and I will talk to everyone with this confidence." It was out there as a concept, but it worked.”

Confidence

Author:Eddie Izzard

Source: Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

“I had the luxury of working on the script with Andrew [Dominik] for a good year before the film started, so I was already intimate with the story [of The Assassination of Jesse James] and felt quite prepared walking into it.”

Years Stories Film Felt Walking Prepared Scripts Luxury Intimate Assassination Andrew Good Years

Author:Brad Pitt

“I had the metabolism of a hummingbird on crack.”

Cracks Metabolism Hummingbirds

Author:Ilona Andrews

Source: Magic Burns

“I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.”

Moving Turns Fall Blue Spots Hips Torture Misfortunes Pool Again And Again Purple Bruises Skateboarder

Author:Emile Hirsch

“I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.”

Poor Money Absurd Nightmare

Author:Dan Aykroyd

“I had the most beautiful dream, and then I fell asleep in your arms and my dream turned lovelier still.”

Dream Affection Love Story Richelle Goodrich Crush Richelle Enchantment

Author:Richelle E. Goodrich

Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.”

Beautiful Education Theory Mathematics Math

Author:Anne Shirley

“I had the most beautiful sleep; I dreamt of Kells, and we were in the mirror together.”

Horror Horror Authors Ghost Stories Jonathan Dunne Goodreads Jonathan Dunne Quotes Supernatural Thrillers Jonathan Dunne Drive Creepy Horror

Author:Jonathan Dunne

Source: Drive: An Old Castle Novel

“I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to clean the windows on envelopes.”

World Inspirational Jobs Used Office Window Clean Boring Envelopes Office Jobs

Author:Rita Rudner

“I had the most expensive haircut you can get, and I was walking around with my hair in rollers backstage, and my hair still came out looking like I was shot out of a cannon and I had just gotten out of bed.”

Stills Hair Walking Bed Shots Expensive Haircuts Cannons

Author:Kelly Cutrone

“I had the most fantastic time filming 'Downton.'”

Fantastic

Author:Rose Leslie

“I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.”

Shows Fun Rocks

Author:Wayne Knight

“I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.”

Writing Made Kids School Literature Opportunity Given Loses Study Teacher College Incredibles Excited Storytelling Journalism Documentaries Good Writing Editorials

Author:Sophia Bush

“I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.”

Running Wanted Childhood Running Free

Author:Taylor Swift

“I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!”

Want Artist Parent Careers Son Proud Opposites Mum Businessman Respectable Proud Of You

Author:David Guetta

“I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.”

Way Mind Ideas America Artist Producers Naive Mind Set

Author:M. Ward

“I had the nightmare when I was like nine or ten or something, I always remembered pieces of that nightmare, the feeling from it. I've always wanted to make a horror film and so I always kept thinking about that nightmare.”

Thinking Feelings Wanted Film Pieces Horror Ten Nine Remembered Nightmare Horror Film

Author:David Robert Mitchell

“I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.”

Writing Wanted Novel College Bills Notion Dirty Nasty Naughty Gis

Author:Tom T. Hall

“I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues.”

Needs Born One Thing Singers

Author:Lightnin' Hopkins

“I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.”

Looks Made Sports Western Bob Dylan Beard Hemisphere

Author:Bill Walton

“I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.”

Home Kids Opportunity Stuff Watches

Author:Bob Seger

“I had the opportunity to go on 2 tours with Selena Gomez and that really boosted the exposure and experience for me. It was when I got a shot at The Voice that I really got the biggest boost and got to show what I could do!”

Shows Opportunity Voice Goes On Shots Exposure Boost

Author:Christina Grimmie

“I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.”

Opportunity Team

Author:Pedro Martinez

“I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].”

Life Is Opportunity Bird Soldier Yellow Life Is Like Opportunities To Learn

Author:Alden Ehrenreich

“I had the opportunity to play every day in the minors, and everybody knew me in the minors. In the big leagues, it was a little different. It was up and down and up and down, and I didn't get a chance to show people that I can play every day and I can be a superstar. Now, I can show everybody what they are getting from me.”

People Littles I Can Different Play Shows Bigs Opportunity Chance Down And League Minors Up And Down Superstar

Author:Felix Pie

“I had the opportunity to speak at a recent fundraiser [for Hillary Clinton] and felt extremely honored that she would allow someone as, well, untraditional as me to stand at her podium.”

Wells Opportunity Speak Felt Clinton Honored Fundraiser

Author:Chrissy Teigen

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