I Quotes
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“I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.”
Source: Empire: A Novel
“I was brought up to believe we can be better. We can be more than who we are...that's our gift. We have the ability to learn, the capacity to change. We grow. That's how we become better. We evolve with each new lesson we learn, if we're willing to accept those lessons.”
“I was brought up to believe you should always live the most interesting life you can.”
“I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself and then to do so in a way that's pleasing to hear. But I've always had a need to make my presence known. I was just sort of born that way, I guess. It's my natural tendency.”
“I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.”
“I was brought up to question things, but I was always a really quiet and shy child.”
“I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.”
“I was brought up to reuse things.”
“I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.”
“I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.”
“I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.”
“I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.”
“I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I've always been supported. My family has always protected me in a sort of manic way.”
“I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.”
“I was brought up with lies all the time... that's how you got along... I have lied my entire life...”
“I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.”
“I was brought up with the 3 Ds: Determination, Discipline and Da Lord.”
“I was brought up with the sense that I was absolutely no different from my brothers. I went to college thinking I was absolutely no different from the men in college. But that's not true. I'm fundamentally different. The problem was not being able to understand difference and equality at the same time. It's something that we can't seem to comprehend. You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. It's a mistake.”
“I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, "What you do is really nowhere near as important as the things that are going on in the world, and if your work needs to reflect that, or you want it to, then you need to strive for a certain type of excellence."”
“I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.”
“I was bruised, but I wasn’t broken.”
“I was
brutal in
My Ithika
thinking”
Source: The Hurricane Lamp
“I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.”
“I was building the plane while flying it in the first term.”
“I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me.”
Source: Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir
“I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.”
“I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.”
“I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“I was bullied a lot in middle school, and my bullies have since all apologized.”
“I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.”
“I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.”
“I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.”
“I was bullied badly as a kid, but I could always change schools. I could always go home. Now you can't, because of cyberbullying. When bullying follows you home, and there's no escape and no end, to me, that's horror. And to so many girls, that's just life.”
“I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.”
“I was bullied by my siblings and cousins, so make-believe was a way in which I could be in charge. When I was like 10 and my sister was about five, I convinced her that she was going to jail because she used a bad word. The doorbell happened to ring, and I told her it was the police. I made her pack her bags. She was crying, and then I said to her, "I forgive you, and I'm gonna tell the cop to go away." Then, of course, she loved me. It was terrible - she still remembers it. I had a sordid sense of humor.”
“I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.”
“I was bullied every second of every day in elementary and middle school.
Obviously, people are going to bring you down because of your drive.
But, ultimately, it makes you a stronger person to turn your cheek and
go the other way.”
“I was bullied from the time that I was a small child and into my adulthood—sometimes, I still feel as though I’m being bullied. It has left me with my own scars to bear, and we truly must prioritize helping our children in situations like these.
Shenita Etwaroo”
“I was bullied in first grade, and it's definitely not fun. But always tell somebody instead of holding it in. Communicate with people and just say, 'Hey, I'm being bullied. I need help.'”
“I was bullied pretty badly especially in middle school. High school was not as bad as middle school, but I was not a macho kid at all. And the kids saw me as different from a very, very early age.”
“I was bullied. I was a bit of a geek. Good-looking guys were off-limits. I didn't start dating until I was 18.”
“I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes,
blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn,
"Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."”
“I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.”
“I was burned so many times that I stopped giving interviews. In other words, if my words ended up in print, they were twisted in an indescribable fashion.”
“I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.”
“I was busier than a beaver in a coffee lake.”
Source: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More
“I was busy perusing the suicide notes and waiting for Belvedere's water to finish its treatment when I heard a thud from Cookie's office. Then a mousy squeak. The a throaty moan.
"Cookie," I said, wiggling my fingers at Belvedere to get him acquainted to with our strange ways, "are you masturbating?"
"No, I got a paper cut."
Oh, I didn't see that coming.”
Source: Seventh Grave and No Body
“I was busy watching my taped reruns of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," Marco said, giving Rachel a sly look. "Last night, it was the one where it was a beautiful day in the neighborhood.”
Source: The Message
“I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.”