I've worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.

Every part of me is a surfer. I love surfing, and I love the waves that I surf. So that's the thing that I get excited about most: What kind of waves am I going to be able to surf? Am I going to be...

You can only fall so far through a tree before the limbs become abrasive to your body.

I used to carry Everlast's duffle bag with all his North Faces in it. I used to clean his Ewings with a toothbrush before he hit the stage and I used to wash his Celtic's jersey. Basically, I rolled...

I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.

I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.

The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.

I went to the library - and this was before the Internet - and I searched for a career that was creative, would not fall into a routine, involved problem solving and making things. It also had to be...

I have a gay cousin who came out to my parents before he came out to his own. So I benefited from having a very open, supportive family, and I want to pass that on.

I wasn't part of the BeyHive before I met her, but after my experience working with her, meeting her, I'm a die-hard fan.

Russian children typically hear racist and ethnic slurs against Caucasus natives at home before hearing it on the streets.

We just get comfortable in our routines, and that's how it worked before, but now you can see wrestling from around the world and all the promotions, and everyone has something online you could see....

I've had losses in my career before, and I've always come back stronger from those losses.

But again, dealing with border security is an issue that—it's like having a fire in the back of your house that you need to put out first before you talk about who you're going to let in the front...

Americans deserve to feel secure in their own lives, in their own middle-class aspirations, before you go to them and say, 'We're going to have to enforce navigable sea lanes in the South China Sea.'

How quick are we to learn: that is, to imitate what others have done or thought before. And how slow to understand: that is, to see the deeper connections.

I've never been on a television show as a regular before.

When I had introduced 'Kandy Floss,' I was a bundle of nerves... I had done a non-fiction programme before - 'Kosmiic Chat' with Sunita Menon. But this one I was really scared of.

I've been invited to do 'Strictly' and they told me who I would be dancing with because, apparently, you have to train with them for six weeks before. But it's just not going to happen because my body...

On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position...

I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday.

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything...

Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.

Before Bitcoin, I was just waiting around for the Singularity.

In order to stay where I am - and I want to do that - I have to stay dedicated as well as I have been before I became No. 1.

Before I take an offer seriously, I do my own research.

Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They'd earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make...

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.