It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.
Henry Rollins
MusicSchoolMeStupidNameEnough
A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement, the women's rights movement, you name it.
Steven Van Zandt
WomenWarNameYouSixtiesMovement
When I was on 'The Real World,' I moved back to Cleveland, and I had a choice: My dad was like, 'You should stay in Cleveland and be the big name out here.' I was like, 'But no, Dad, I wanna be a WWE superstar.'
The Miz
WorldNameYouBackChoiceReal
Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.
Jordan Peele
RisksPeopleThinkNameYouGo
I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em.
Philip Treacy
NameSayDivaSpecialistWorked
Chance is a name for our ignorance.
Leslie Stephen
IgnoranceChanceNameOur
Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.
Robert H. Schuller
HistoryVoiceNameSeriouslyWill
It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.
Dave Mustaine
NameYouWritePencilBigYour
I've played a lot of people where someone will say, 'This is based on my sister, and such and such happened.' But I don't think I ever played someone who, 'This is their name, and this is their address, and this is what they looked like.'
Rosemarie DeWitt
PeopleSisterThinkNameSomeone
Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?
Colin Mochrie
ChangeNameWillHeyHeSting
I had this one audition - I won't say the casting director's name, but she was on the phone the whole time I sang. I was literally doing my audition, and she was on the phone. So I guess whatever it is she was ordering for lunch was more important than the high C's I was belting out.
Tituss Burgess
TimeLunchNameDoingPhoneSay
I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.
Joe Alwyn
FinanceMeFaceNamePaySee
When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.
Gloria Stuart
New YorkNameBackNewWantMovie
Take my gay-hairdresser routine. You'll let your hairdresser say things to you that you wouldn't let your parents say. My hairdresser will say the funniest things, so I asked him if I could put him in my routine - you know, make fun of him in a good way. He said, 'Oh, mention my name, mention my name!'
Sinbad
GoodFunParentsNameYouRoutine
Some people thought Theophilus was a fake name. Whatever.
Theophilus London
PeopleThoughtNameFakeSome People
I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.
Jon Landau
FutureNameRockRollSawBruce
I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.
Pierre Loti
QualityMemoryMeNameSeriousOld
I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.
Li Lu
MoneyNameStudentNeverUpChina
I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.
Matthew Pearl
BirthdayTimePeopleMeBookName
The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.
David Bowie
FamilyNameBirthSeniorOwnLast
Women's minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that 'Free Spirit' has been branded into them as a brand name for girdles and bras rather than as the name of our verb-ing, be-ing Selves.
Mary Daly
WomenFreeBrandNameSpiritMinds
In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks - you name 'em, they can play any part they want. Guys like me who are somewhere down in the middle of the pack, that's a different story. I can do things in the theater that I can't do anyplace else.
Brian Dennehy
StarsBusinessMeStoryNameYou
The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.
Tim Cook
LifeWorldNameSomeoneYouWorst
I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.
Ji-Hae Park
MusicPeopleMeThinkNameEnjoy
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