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When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.
Ryan Seacrest
Old
,
Big
,
Ugly
And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.
Richard Hovey
Men
,
Wealth
,
Nations
So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation.
Sanjay Kumar
Technology
,
Today
,
Help
The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.
David Copperfield
Appear
,
Disappear
,
Board
I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.
Mitch Albom
Money
,
Made
,
Cars
In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.
Arabella Weir
Time
,
Diet
,
Long
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.
Louise Brown
Romantic
,
Book
,
Perfect
And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same.
Geraldine Brooks
Lost
,
Same
,
Child
Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.
Gary Allan
Mom
,
Character
,
Country
I'm more of a homebody. I'm constantly asked: 'Why don't we see you out?' But that's not what drives me. I prefer to have people over - which I do a lot, because I bought a house that's way too big for me, and four of my friends live there.
Kristen Bell
Live
,
Friends
,
Why
We have been roommates our entire lives. We just bought a place together.
Mary-Kate Olsen
Together
,
Place
,
Lives
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
Sarah Vowell
Nice
,
Slaves
,
Ski
I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself.
Judd Nelson
While
,
Since
,
Clothes
I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.
Graham Coxon
Before
,
Guitar
,
Lovely
I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.
Robert Purvis
Good
,
Judge
,
Insult
I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.
Janis Ian
Time
,
Good
,
Money
Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.
Graham Nash
Beautiful
,
Level
,
Inside
Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly.
Arnold Palmer
Love
,
Great
,
Business
In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.
Johnny Rivers
Early
,
Fender
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
Bjorn Lomborg
Energy
,
Wanted
,
Everyone
There've been times when I've bought a whole pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one go.
Helena Christensen
Down
,
Whole
,
Times
I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.
Robbie Coltrane
Thought
,
Honest
,
Books
I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.
Laura Hillenbrand
Book
,
Old
,
Used
My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.
Tracy Chapman
Old
,
Keep
,
She
I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.
Mike Epps
Respect
,
Mother
,
Black
I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.
Kamala Harris
Time
,
Home
,
Mother
I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud.
Marlon Wayans
Music
,
Play
,
Big
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
Gordon Parks
Camera
,
Paid
,
Washington
When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.
Peter Lynch
Find
,
Sure
,
Attractive
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
John Perry Barlow
Ideas
,
Ignorant
,
System
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