I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.
You can get knocked down, and it hurts and it leaves scars. But if you're a leader, the people you've counted on will help you up. And if you're a leader, the people who count on you need you on your feet.
I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.
I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.
I'd knocked on doors when I'd gone to theater school in Los Angeles the summer of my junior year, trying to find an agent and submitting headshots, but nobody would see me, and I knew it was virtually impossible to get an audition if you didn't have an agent.
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.
I didn't have capital and influence in this industry. So I bought yellow pages and knocked each door of the company located at industrial parks.
I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
I watched Mark Rylance in the Broadway revival of 'La Bete,' and it knocked my socks off. The complete commitment, passion, and unbridled enjoyment in every moment of what he was doing was overwhelming.
I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.
If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.
I met my husband through a mutual friend. He invited me over for dinner and cooked this meal that knocked my socks off - and maybe knocked off a few other pieces of clothing off as well.
I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.
If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.
I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.
I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.
I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.
I haven't knocked all the doors I need to knock down, but I can see it happening more and more. It will just take more perseverance and work.
Whether someone like Klitschko wins, loses, draws, or gets knocked out in five seconds, he is still a big name.
You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!
Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.
Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they'd be in any other city.
I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.