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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
Venus Williams
Everyone
,
Makes
,
Rumors
I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.
Layne Staley
Playing
,
Singing
,
Drums
My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.
Etta James
Good
,
Mother
,
Lost
When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'
Louis C. K.
Women
,
Dating
,
After
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
Tommy Lasorda
Failure
,
Thinking
,
Start
Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
Danica McKellar
Famous
,
She
,
Actually
I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.
Eric Cantona
Game
,
Football
,
Beach
I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think that's what really started me off.
Francesca Annis
School
,
Play
,
Off
After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
Alan Alda
Life
,
After
,
Dead
I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
Carly Fiorina
Find
,
Chance
,
Gave
Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.
Annie Lennox
Great
,
Everybody
,
Motherhood
I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
Annie Lennox
Heart
,
Writing
,
Songs
On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.
Eddie Van Halen
Time
,
Attitude
,
Everything
I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.
Mark Zuckerberg
Business
,
Site
Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.
Mark Zuckerberg
Made
,
Friends
,
Sense
I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.
Neil Young
Writing
,
Two
,
After
I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.
Harry Connick, Jr.
Music
,
Mean
,
After
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
Naguib Mahfouz
Love
,
Good
,
Writing
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
Ulysses S. Grant
Everyone
,
Mine
,
Anywhere
The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.
Chris Brown
Care
,
Words
,
Moment
I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.
Chris Brown
Mom
,
School
,
Understand
On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.
Dee Dee Myers
Woman
,
Evening
,
Serious
Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.
Walter Knott
Home
,
Lost
,
Find
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
Billie Jean King
Women
,
Sports
,
Beginning
My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.
Helena Bonham Carter
Father
,
Act
,
Ill
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
Billy Joel
Music
,
Women
,
Writing
When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Home
,
Said
,
Studying
There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
David Duchovny
Humor
,
Learning
,
Character
When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.
David Duchovny
Getting
,
Appear
,
Commercial
I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.
David Duchovny
Hard
,
Living
,
Away
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