Mattie Stepanek Quotes

The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.

Mattie Stepanek

• Teenager

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• I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Up
  • Teenager
  • Going

• I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Always
  • Violence
  • Teenager

• I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Teenager
  • Dresses
  • Colors

• In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Me
  • Never

• I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Art
  • Girl

• My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Books
  • Teenager
  • Experienced

• I was a pretty difficult teenager.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Pretty
  • Difficult
  • Teenager

• If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Money
  • Business
  • Giving

• If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn't have expected to be shot.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Teenager
  • Street
  • Shot

• 'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Successful

• I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Hair
  • Teenager
  • Result

• I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Book
  • America
  • Christian

• But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Remember
  • Man
  • Poverty

• I last went to a gym when I was a teenager to make sure I could lift ballerinas.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Teenager
  • Gym
  • Last

• When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Hair
  • Body
  • Teenager

• I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Taken
  • Teenager
  • Answers

• The call to rein in globalization reflects a belief that it has eliminated jobs in the West, sending them East and South. But the biggest threat to traditional jobs is not Chinese or Mexican; it is a robot.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Chinese
  • Mexican

• You can't cope with change anymore than you can manage stress.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Change
  • Stress
  • Manage

• The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.

  

  Mark Zandi
  • Mistake
  • Recovery

• The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • Teenager