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“I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade, despite an international ban since 1989, and that 60% of forest elephants have already been wiped out. At this rate, experts say populations will become extinct in the next decade. No one needs ivory.”

Needs Years Next Trade Rate International Population Decades Forests Despite Experts Fuel Elephants Shocked Bans Ivory

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“I was pretty spoiled growing up, creatively and artistically; we were exposed to a lot of different things. I remember watching my brother's friends struggle to get to the level he was at musically and wondering why they were having such a hard time.”

Different Hard Remember Levels Wonder Struggle Growing Up Growing Brother My Brother Hard Times Different Things Exposed Spoiled

Author:Stephen Bruner

“I was pretty subdued [as a kid ] because I didn't want to get spanked, and I didn't want to go to Hell.”

Want Kids Hell Go To Hell

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“I was pretty sure if I tried to sing, all I would cause was an avalanche.”

Percy Jackson Relatable

Author:Rick Riordan

Source: The Last Olympian

“I was pretty sure that I wasn’t very good at this whole love thing. And if being in love required so much effort, then I wasn’t sure I wanted to be a part of it anyway.”

Love Solitude

Author:Hiromi Kawakami

“I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.”

Serious Tough

Author:Britta Phillips

“I was pretty young when I bought my first place, and at that time didn't really view it as an investment. After living there for a few years I decided to move out of London, so I decided to rent it out for a few years. Then, as the property market continued to rise, I made the decision to sell.”

Years Firsts Made Moving Young Decision Views Decided Sells Property Investment London

Author:Andy Murray

“I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.”

Young Saws Planets Originals Obsessed Seventies Apes

Author:Gregory Keyes

“I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.”

Ifs Bigs Young Father Meetings Folks Ministers Odd Prime Prime Minister Mischief

Author:Julian McMahon

“I was pretty young. I guess I was in high school, so I was probably 13 years old. It was crazy. I remember it very vividly. I remember - it was actually kind of horrifying, because one of my friends - we smoked out of a bong, and one of my friends - this was so stupid - he didn't want to bring - it was after school on a Friday, and he didn't - we smoked weed in this park called the Ravine that was across the street from my high school.”

Want Years Kind School Remember Young Crazy Streets Stupid High School My Friends Parks Weed Friday After School Bongs

Author:Seth Rogen

“I was previously involved in local and state politics, but not national, because grassroots democracy starts at the bottom. This was the breaking point for me, though - and it made the case that in order to fight locally, we have to fight nationally; we can't afford to neglect any area of life in this democracy.”

Made States Order Fighting Cases Democracy Involved Areas Bottom Locals Neglect Grassroots Point Break

Author:Jill Stein

“I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.”

People Stills Action Building Sake Still Life

Author:Ben Shahn

“I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.”

Years Able Lasts Study Teaching Last Year Privileged

Author:Twyla Tharp

“I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?”

Children Play Would Be Running Kids Grows Growing Up Streets Ocean Mexico Privileged Better Place Neighbour Running Free

Author:Salma Hayek

“I was probably 11 by the time I saw a movie.”

Saws

Author:Peter Gallagher

“I was probably 16.I played - I tried to play these songs that I had written. And, this was a common theme when I was younger: I would write a song about somebody, and they would come to my show. I wouldn't be able to play the whole thing, because, there would be some giant, loaded secret coming up in like, the third verse, or something.”

Writing Song Common Secret Verses

Author:Caitlin Rose

“I was probably 34 when I got my first on-camera acting job, and it was through a friend of mine, who was working as a writer on the show, and I've never been more frightened in my life.”

Firsts Shows Jobs Acting Mines Cameras Frightened

Author:Kurt Fuller

“I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.”

Firsts Kind Stories Young Voice Vision Looking Back Aerospace Double Vision

Author:Denis Johnson

“I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.”

Writing Years Song Serious Guitar

Author:Dolly Parton

“I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.”

Said School Students College High School Journalism Gears

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.”

Pride Dad Terrible Husband Good Dad

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I was probably about 13 or 14, and I went by myself to the City Auditorium in Colorado Springs and saw the guy who wrote and sang "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini." Brian something. And I got to meet him and he signed an autograph for me, a little piece of paper. Brian Hyland! It was so bizarre.”

Littles Guy Cities Saws Pieces Paper Spring Yellow Bizarre Autographs Brian Colorado Bikinis Auditoriums

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“I was probably about 22 years old when I recommitted myself to get off the fence and go all in and get serious about my faith. That's really when I experienced God's love and His forgiveness and His true grace.”

Years Grace Serious Fence God's Love

Author:Mike Fisher

“I was probably about fourteen I think, and probably like every boy who's fourteen that writes a song, it was about a girl. It was about a girl who I really liked, but she didn't like me as much as I liked her. I think most guys go through that.”

Thinking Writing Guy Song Girl Boys Like Me Fourteen

Author:Billy Boyd

“I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.”

Made Games Winning Born Winner Championship Whatever Works

Author:Kobe Bryant

“I was probably born with some designing abilities.”

Born Ability Design

Author:Mikhail Kalashnikov

“I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.”

Doe Artist Born Ability Draws

Author:James Rosenquist

“I was probably cool around the end of 2002.”

Ends

Author:Martin Freeman

“I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.”

Feet Findings Obsession Obsessed Faltering

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“I was probably five years old or four years and I would listen to "White Christmas," and I just thought it was the most beautiful thing ever. The musicianship and his voice and the melody of that song; it's almost like I wish it wasn't a Christmas song because I wish that you were allowed to listen to it all year.”

Years Beautiful Song Wish Voice White Five Four Five Years Melody Four Years Beautiful Things Five Year Olds Christmas Song Musicianship White Christmas

Author:Michael Buble

“I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.”

Sports Shapes Judgment Athlete

Author:Steve Carlton

“I was probably just graduating high school, maybe still in high school. When I was still in high school, maybe the last two years, I was rapping but I wasn't telling anybody. When I signed my deal people didn't know it was the same Ryan Montgomery from Oak Park High School, because I used to play basketball and I used to fight. Like I'd bring boxing gloves to school. So when they found out, it was, "You mean Ryan who be boxing?" or, "Ryan who be hopping up at the park?" So I was known as that guy.”

“I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all”

Ifs Trying Interesting Vocabulary

Author:Todd Barry

“I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.”

Years Home School Used Walks Boxes Cds Ipods

Author:Doug E. Fresh

“I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.”

Ifs Thinking Wells School Opportunity Gone High School Scared Oscars Exam

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.”

Writing Kind Mean Wanted Produce Theater Grapes Sour Sour Grapes

Author:Larry Hovis

“I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.”

Firsts Heard Ten First Time Nine Santa Santa Claus

Author:Joe Nichols

“I was probably not the first to lose my virginity among my friends. I was definitely one of the last ones to reach puberty - I didn't grow until the last couple years of high school.”

Years Firsts School Lasts Grows Loses Couple High School My Friends Virginity Puberty

Author:Simon Baker

“I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.”

Years Firsts Audience Six Six Year Olds

Author:Brian McKnight

“I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.”

Children Growing Tall

Author:Kevin Hart

“I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.”

Ifs World Would Be Earth Hardest Crisps

Author:Larry Holmes

“I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.”

Firsts Persons Kids School Class High School Yale Larks

Author:Maya Lin

“I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.”

Class Teacher Clown

Author:Christine Lavin

“I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as "cute."”

Cute Revolutionary Rebellious

Author:Abbie Hoffman

“I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."”

Girl Church Beats Thirds Grades Preacher Irritated Baptized Third Grade Zealot

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood.”

Kind Different Childhood Different Things Processing Rethinking

Author:Baron Vaughn

“I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.”

Proud Series Producers Lots Of Money Earning

Author:Patrick Macnee

“I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.”

Band Productions Clubs California Session Jam Demos Northern California

Author:Ronnie Montrose

“I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking for a piece of material that was about behavior and feelings. When I read Judith Guest's book, I thought, This is it.”

Book Feelings Felt Acting Pieces Materials Behavior Guests

Author:Robert Redford

“I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.”

White Policy Memorable Australia Embarrassed

Author:Gough Whitlam

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