I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.

Alain de Botton

Margaret Thatcher was as viscerally hated at home as she was warmly respected abroad.

A. A. Gill

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

A. S. Byatt

I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.

Aasif Mandvi

I didn't want to be pro-life. I hated the pro-life movement. I had been taught to hate them. I thought they hated me.

Abby Johnson

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Abraham Lincoln

I hated Led Zeppelin at school.

Ad-Rock

When I was in school, if I was talking as myself and I was presenting something as myself or having to answer a question, I was so nervous. I would get red in the face; I would feel sweaty. I hated it. But anytime I was performing, like, if it was a talent show, or if it's through wrestling, I'm portraying or being someone else, I'm so comfortable.

Adam Cole

By the end of my career I just really hated being out there on that field and being subjected to what was happening to me.

Adam Goodes

It hasn't always been a sweet ride. When I was 15, I almost hated racing in finals because I was so nervous. But as I got more experienced, I had to choose between fight and flight - and I've fought every time.

Adam Peaty

I always hated watching cooking shows where the chef would use ingredients that I couldn't get my hands on, cooking implements that I couldn't afford, recipes that I could never have access to.

Adam Richman

I used to hate my behind, like every other black girl. I hated my behind. I hated my hair. I hated my nose because no one said it was beautiful.

Adina Porter

I hated 'Dilbert.'

Adrian Tomine

I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have.

Agnes Gund

I grew up playing the piano, but you know, as a rebellious child, I convinced myself that I hated it.

Aimee Osbourne

I hated, when I was a kid, being told that 'Black people don't do that.' And the white kids at school didn't accept me because I was black, and the black kids in my neighborhood didn't accept me because they thought I thought I was white.

Aisha Tyler

I've always hated exercise, but because I've had problems with my back, I now do Pilates, and I walk a lot.

Aisling Bea

I have an older brother and older sister. My older sister is the girliest girl on the planet, so I just hated everything about that. I did anything my brother did. He actually got me into wrestling. I watched it because he did, and I played video games because he did.

AJ Lee

Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.

Al Lopez

I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.

Alain de Botton

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

Alain Prost