My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.
Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding the world in a different way.
I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer.
I've accomplished a lot at a young age. It's all because of the hard work that I've put in for my entire life.
I was four days old when I went to my first bluegrass festival.
I never counted how many tattoos I have, but I started getting them at a really young age, so most of my big ones are cover-ups.
Making six-pack abs for no reason doesn't make sense. When you are young, it is possible.
I knew that the most important thing a man has is in his head, and from a young age, I often studied the head structure of each person, hoping to crack his codes. I considered a high forehead a gift from God.
Coming up in the Bay Area and being African American in a city that has a history of complex issues of violent crime, interaction with the police is always intense. That's something you have to learn. My mom taught me at a young age that if ever a cop stops you, you put your hands up and freeze - don't move.
My mom is very religious - Catholic - and from a young age they brought me to the church.
I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.
I do take for granted, probably, the fact that I grew up in New York City, one of the most liberal places on earth, with bleeding-heart, liberal parents who took me to see 'Rent' and Terrence McNally plays from a very young age.
It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young.
I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.
I've been working since I was 7.
I did aikido when I was four years old.
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
Because I started at such a young age, I went in with a 'take what comes, do what I'm told' approach.
If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'
I've been in the studio environment since I was young, so I know what to expect.
I loved numbers from a very young age. I feel like my mom led me there because, instead of giving me Game Boy and PlayStations and a TV, she gave me educational software on our family computer for Math and stuff.
My brother was my first guru who introduced me to spiritualism at a very young age. He later even enrolled me into Ramakrishna Mission.
I was really good at a young age, but every day I had to walk in the house, and walk past my dad's jersey framed on the wall because he was an Olympian, so I was like, all right, I haven't done anything yet.
From a young age, I took an interest in the music and my mom noticed it.
I set out in the beginning to be the heavyweight champion of the world. From a very young age, I was going to be the heavyweight champion of the world. Nothing else was a problem to me. That's what I'll finish doing.
