Non-Traditional Path Quotes

I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor.

I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

Not a lot of people take advantage of that opportunity of being different. A lot of kids that are highly touted coming out of high school, like, doing the traditional thing and going to the blue bloods and all that, but I was always different growing up.

I don't think my experience with professional football has been what you'd call normal but I don't regret it.

I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.

I hire a lot of waiters, waitresses. Someone who's successful has a background that's not predictable.

I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.

I never wanted to become an actress. I come from an air force background.

People say I'm controversial. But I think I lead a very balanced and normal life.

I'll never have a wedding. I don't want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.

I've always dreamed of becoming a mother. I thought I would get married and do it all the traditional way, but life kept going on, my career kept me busy - and I had not stopped to become a mommy.

If I was not an actress, I would be a homeopathic doctor.

I haven't had to do anything outside of show business my whole life. I've never been a waiter. I've only worked and gotten paid. It hasn't been a classic example of someone slogging through the business.

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.

When I was going into inventing, it wasn't a dream the way someone goes into nursing or dancing. Because there's a path with that. It's very different when you say, 'I have an idea and it doesn't exist.' It's a very different path.

Sometimes you don't go straight from high school or college and get to the NBA from there. Sometimes you have to go when you're a little bit older and try that other route like Jeremy Lin. And he made it.

I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.

I obviously wasn't a normal tennis story.

I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.

I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.

I'm proud to say that I've never had a normal job. I started doing stand-up when I was in high school, purely as a measure to never get a proper job.

I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.