#stopped

I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be. ↗

— Crystal Waters

#became #big #diva #holding #holding on

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#doing #even #finished #i #nirvana

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#bikes #candy #candy store #home #like

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#ago #believing #better #both #comes

By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#bullying #by the time #came #claimed #hiding

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped. ↗

— Thierry Henry

#i #retiring #stop #stopped #stopping

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing. ↗

— Jim Henson

#commercials #couple #did #doing #i

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty. ↗

— Dan Hicks

#drinking #give #got #guy #haven

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped. ↗

— Tony Greig

#army #control #country #exiles #gained

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#facing #i #i think #listening #now