We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn’t put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well. – Freddie Mercury
It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders: Obama on this score has so far been disappointing; the early signs are that Xi is a highly confident leader who thinks big. – Martin Jacques
I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years. – Gary Miller
In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well. – Cliff Stearns
Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period. – Patton Oswalt
But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not. – Eric Clapton
I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automatic charisma and was a very verbal person, he always played those more silent characters and played within the scene and never overacted. – Daniel Espinosa
In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists. – Creed Bratton
I don’t have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there. – Dolly Parton
In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary. – Colleen McCullough
In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA. – Elizabeth Blackburn
I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, ‘Get a horse!’ when an early automobile exploded by. – Preston Sturges
I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the ‘New Yorker,’ to be on Broadway, and at least in a fleeting way, I got all those things. – Mark O’Donnell
It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century. – Dwight Yoakam
With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick. – Elizabeth Holmes
According to the committee’s findings, a network of mobile missiles carrying the newest warheads could be tested by China this year and deployed as early as 2002. – Charles Bass
The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record. – Gavin DeGraw
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe. – Eric S. Raymond
My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents’ courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory. – Elizabeth Warren
My characters have to talk, or they’re out. They audition in early scenes. If they can’t talk, they’re given less to do, or thrown out. – Elmore Leonard