It took me two years to get an appointment with Mr. Suga who cut my hair for the Olympics. Who knew? I had no idea that it would be popular.

I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn’t offer anything back to our...

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone’s. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country’s life and I took it.

I took Al Unser out on a Hobie the day before he became the first auto racer to go 200 mph around a closed-circuit track. We were only going about 18 mph, and you should...

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city’s West Side.

She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.

The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should… you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that’s inside me.

A caveman took a shell, and maybe it had a hole in it, or maybe he put a hole in it, and he put it on a piece of a tail of a donkey or...

Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was the norm – so I did the same thing.

I don’t sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that’s what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and...

It took 17 years to get ‘Rambling Rose’ made from the time Calder Willingham wrote the script adapted from his novel. Ed Scherick, the producer, was interested in it. Martha Coolidge was interested in directing...

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France… settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king...

I took on cancer like I take on everything – like a mission and a job to accomplish.

No show would be successful if you took a group of people and just said, ‘You’re dumb!’ over and over. That’s not what Broadway’s about.

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.

When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them.

It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld...

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.

If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.

I’ve done so many Lifetime movies; at this point, I’ll be going through airport security, and the lady there will be like, ‘I took the weekend off and I saw four of your movies.’ And...

As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world.

It took us a lot of man hours to get that bloody white hair out, so it’s good to get rid of it.

Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it’s one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The...

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything – his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big...

For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto...

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It’s like something else has other plans for me.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

My first job, I worked at ‘YM’ and I had an extremely tough boss who made me cry every single day. But what I took away from that was how I would never be.

At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

I took back my life.

I’m a huge fan of Brad Pitt. He could have done rom-coms his entire career, but he took it in a different direction.

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it’s grueling – all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.

Too many multi-vitamins are packaged as one size fits all, but you should be more specific about what you need. When I was competing as a dancer, I took zinc for healthy skin and immune...

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.