John Gokongwei Quote: 'I knew I could make it ...' @FEELquotes

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

Natalie Wood

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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Joan Didion

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They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.

Salma Hayek

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The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

Donald Knuth

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Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

Cicely Tyson

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Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work.

Marcus Allen

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I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

Sara Paretsky

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I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

George Duke

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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.

I. M. Pei

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I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

Spike Lee

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I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

Peter Fonda

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I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

Matt Groening

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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

Rachel Cusk

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I had no other interests but baseball because I never thought I'd not make it. No. Never.

Justin Verlander

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I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated', because I've always been skinny.

Carolyn Murphy

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It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me.

Sharon Stone

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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.

Ralph Lauren

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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

Jack Adams

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I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

M. Night Shyamalan

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Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.

Drew Brees

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