#tart

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#could #i #maybe #pitch #record

When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#campaigning #change #changing #come #concentrating

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. ↗

— Walter Pater

#culture #eager #human #human spirit #life

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#came #closest #ever #fact #first

I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.' ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#actor #asked #because #bunch #came

I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it. ↗

— Mike Pence

#american people #bailout #behind #bill #capitol

I started out doing musicals. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#i #musicals #out #started

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action. ↗

— Ty Pennington

#cook #cooking #even #fend #gourmet

I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#age #bloody #day #doctors #early

You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#any #before #being #bronx #buddies