Don Lemon Quotes

People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.

I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.

There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician.

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

People think my family pushed me into running for office. The person who pushed me most not to run for office was my father.

When I was 5 years old, hanging out with my friends who were all older than me, like 8 or 9, I was joking around like, 'Yeah, when I'm 20 that's a perfect age to go pro.' That's what I had in my head. Then I turn pro at 13. It's all been a mystery and its all been awesome.

We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.'

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing.

I never had any interest in politics. I never would have gone into politics except that when my brother died, my father insisted.

History had unexpected duties in store for us.

If things had gone according to my plans, I'd be a lawyer. I never dreamt of being an actress.

I never in a million years thought that my life would unfold the way it has.

I never wanted to be a part of the industry, as I had no knowledge about it. I am one of those rare and really lucky people for whom the calling identified me and not the other way around.

There was nothing in my childhood that said, 'She's going to be first minister of the country one day.'

Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.

I look back - I think I am an accidental actor.

Acting happened to me by chance. Even I'm surprised how a man from a small village, Belsand, in Gopalganj district has reached Bollywood.