Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Kirk Douglas Quote: 'I came from abject poverty. There ...'

Author

Profession: Actor
Nationality: American
Birthday: December 9, 1916

Links

Tags

Up Go Came I Came Poverty Nowhere Abject

Related Quotes

mill gifhorn museum mill museum

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

Viktor Yanukovych

Tags: Family Out Life

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

Tags: Age Up Very

A lot of people think I came out of nowhere. When you start as a songwriter, nobody knows who you are. I met the guy who wrote 'Yeah' by Usher, which was a huge smash, and nobody knew who he was.

Tags: You People Think

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

Tags: Work Go Wanted

Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient's room and got down on my knees at the foot of the bed and earnestly asked the Lord to help us and to help me.

John Harvey Kellogg

Tags: Me Up Go

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

Tags: Up Something Came

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.

Tags: Home Get Go

'Garbage Time' was the name I came up with. Midnight was my decision. Were they the right decisions? I dunno.

Tags: Time Up Were

I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.

Halsey

Tags: Up Say Anything

Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.

Tags: Dad Never Go

I wasn't expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don't even remember making is blowing up.

McKayla Maroney

Tags: Dad Me Up

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Tags: About Up Going

bridge stone river architecture

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Tags: Came Saw I Came

The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'

Tags: Home Up Than

I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.

Tags: Business About Up

dolomites mountains italy

I haven't forgotten where I came from.

Tags: Where Came I Came

denmark sea north sea beach sand

I came out of my shell in college.

Tags: Out Came College

dolomites mountains italy

With my background, I came out of the theater.

Tags: Out Came Theater

Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

Tags: Up Them Love

I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.

Tags: Business Go Only