#told

It was a wealthy family, and they heard me talk about movies, and they told me I should go into movies. That's the benefit of hanging out with rich people; they have no sense of what is or isn't possible. ↗

— Michael Patrick Jann

#benefit #family #go #hanging #heard

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#go #him #i #me #minister

I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#couple #girlfriends #had #horror #i

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll. ↗

— Joan Jett

#i #play #rock #roll #told

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything. ↗

— Joan Jett

#child #could #defined #follow #i

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have. ↗

— Jewel

#ever #i #ideal #only #then

When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know? ↗

— Jewel

#care #children #day #every #every day

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#doctor #dying #got #i #i think

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it. ↗

— Jack Johnson

#chicken #friend #got #him #i

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#caught #got #hail #i #jackass