When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.
I don't want to sound too bleeding heart, because I know how lucky I've been, but I never knew how hard it was to be the lead in a television show.
When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.
I knew people liked me on 'American Idol,' but I didn't think they'd care to come see me sing at my own show.
I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.
I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.
Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.
I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.
I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs.
Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.
I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.
I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.
A lot of relationships have ended for me in my 20s, because I knew that eventually those people would wanna settle down and have kids.
I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.
In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.
