I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn’t know where it was going.

If people knew what made hits they’d make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one’s career isn’t something I can even pretend to have.

At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn’t have planned it. But by making the choice to come to...

I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do...

In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world – I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job...

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me...

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and...

‘Lucky Man’ I wrote when I was twelve years old. I wrote it when I first was given a guitar by my mother. I only knew four chords, but I used them all to write...

As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer...

I knew that I wanted to meet girls, so I joined a fraternity, and I did yoga.

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn’t know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was...

I couldn’t spell anything. I couldn’t remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

In modelling, it’s very hard to keep in touch with the people you knew when you started.

I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.

I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll,’ John Lennon does nothing but...

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd...

I wasn’t political in 1984, but I did have a friend in Winnemucca who was a ‘Southern Democrat.’ He was raised in Georgia, and when he moved to Nevada, he was still a Democrat, and...

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was...

The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.

The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.

As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director...

I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.

I knew I needed surgery and I didn’t want to have it and I ended up having it.

I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I’ll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along...

The world is not looking for proof of Jesus Christ; the world knew everything about Jesus when they crucified him. The world is guilty. John 16:5-8.

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn’t know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard....

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn’t know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music...

They knew that Roosevelt and the Democratic party made a difference on them, on their quality of life issues, and they believed in that. But today it is completely different.

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

I always knew I wanted to be a chef.

My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn’t want to develop...

I just felt like I couldn’t deal with the everyday responsibilities of life, paying bills and all of that. I’m terrible at all of that. So I knew I had to make enough money to...

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don’t remember ever having to make a choice.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.