When I first got here, I thought L.A. sucked. I hated it. I had this pretentious Manhattan thing. But now I've made such a life here, and I'm so happy here. They're just really different places. I can't really compare them because there's great things about both of them.

Alexandra Daddario

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