When ‘MacGruber’ came out, David Wain was one of the first people who publicly championed it.

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a...

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

Joy always came after pain.

The main points were: one, the amount of Israel’s nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15....

Which came first—mind or body?

I think we’ve come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

I’m a bad pessimist. I don’t think about how successful any record I’ve ever done is going to do before it came out.

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There’s lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual… They don’t care about anything else.

A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, ‘a...

I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings – the projects of New York City – and I worked my way to get to where I am.

I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I’m getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn’t in the script. It was something that I came up with.

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced – that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence – it came...

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

I think one of the reasons Stephen King’s stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.

I’ve started collecting taxidermy: I’ve got a red squirrel, called Steve. I made sure he came with certificates so we know he wasn’t just killed for stuffing.

I came, I saw, God conquered.

My father’s family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn’t a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

Whenever I’d go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he’s asking me how the food is. I get, like, VIP service, so it’s weird.

And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan has been a very powerful message. You know, that was...

I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

No one remembers who came fourth.

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must ‘modernize multilateralism.’

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

I don’t know if anything can really prepare you for ‘Survivor,’ but since I grew up as an athlete, the physical aspect came to me more easily.

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are...

I’m part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother’s side it’s more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American...

It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so...

I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.

Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.

I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters… but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world’s greatest living man – Alexander von Humboldt.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

Designing came to me. I didn’t have to move.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later,...

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

I did the voice of Cyclops on ‘Shrek the Third’. I don’t know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis,...

I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn’t pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.

No one remembers who came in second.

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies.’

You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.