Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Rundgren

I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.

Idina Menzel

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

Idina Menzel

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

Inara George

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.

Glen Hansard

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

Zach Braff

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Warren Farrell

I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

William Quigley

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

Saudi Arabia

well equipped with thousands of kilograms of explosives, with money and fake documents.

Ronald Steel

He forever perplexes and annoys. Every time you think he is about to show the statesmanship for which his intelligence and experience have equipped him, he throws a spitball.

Joel Fuhrman

Girls of 7, 8 or 9 years old are not emotionally or psychologically equipped to handle puberty.

Lisa Jakub

When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film 'Mrs. Doubtfire' for five months, and my high school was not happy. My job meant an increased workload for teachers, and they were not equipped to handle a 'non-traditional' student. So, during filming, they kicked me out.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

John Day

When fully deployed, it will include 8,000 lightly equipped troops, but will also include engineering and medical expertise,

Sara Sheridan

We're all so digital, but the '50s was the era of watches you had to wind. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953, Hillary was equipped with a Rolex Oyster Perpetual.

Tony Nunan

Last time, the market could handle uncertainty as there was a lot of slack but now because prices are so high, the market is not equipped to handle unplanned events.

Alfred Hitchcock

that I am equipped with what other people have called a fiendish sense of humor.

Joe Biden

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

Daniel Craig

We can't go fully monty in Bond, Because we can't get the rating.

Magic Johnson

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

Tom Daschle

time bomb. This is going to be $4-to-$5 trillion when it is fully implemented.

Marcia Wieder

Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.

Peter Scolari

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.

Ian Shepherdson

Most notable was the leap in the prices-paid index, ... this is simply a reflection of higher oil prices but it may not have been fully anticipated in the markets.

Ricky Stuart

Whether he runs out or not, he'll be out there at some stage, and we'll find out whether he's still recovering or fully recovered from that shoulder problem.

William Ackman

I think McDonald's is doing the right thing and we fully support it.

Mark McKinnon

News is virtual now. It is not 24-hour news cycles; it is instant news cycles. It is live. News is live all the time, around the clock.

James DePreist

I thought it would be better to starve slowly over there than instantly over here.

Richard C. Armitage

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

Rich McKay

I don't remember a proposal on instant replay that sought to open up all penalties for review.

William Ackman

I don't think we're going to get the instant value that we would have from the spin-off, but we'll get it over the long term and that's just fine.

Bobby Johnson

I don't know who voted in instant replay, but it about stopped my heart.

Bobby Johnson

I don't know who in the world voted in instant replay, ... But it about stopped my heart.

Rich Brooks

I don't know why we have instant replay if we won't at least look at it,

Charles Simic

A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.

Idina Menzel

I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

Ian Mckellen

It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

Isabel Sanford

I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Evangeline Lilly

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.

William Allan

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

Bruce Weber

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

Brittany Howard

A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.

Brian Kernighan

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

Bonnie Bassler

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

Nancy Gibbs

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.

Bertrand Russell

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Seth Numrich

Theater has been my way of learning about everything.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

John Boyne

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Roger Cook

We need to have them playing as opposed to setting on the bench.

Jason Calacanis

The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I still take my own lunches to work. That way I can control what I'm eating, as opposed to another doughnut.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Norman Finkelstein

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Kate Winslet

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Ava Gardner

What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.

Salman Khan

I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.

Tom Courtenay

I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.

LeBron James

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

Lauren Bacall

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

Bill Budge

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Simon Gagne

I'm starting to feel better. ... I have to say, I think the three of us are starting to feel a little more energy.

Beck

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Andre Williams

I think everybody's starting to realize, we've got to make it work. We've got to get through it.

August Wilson

It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Tom Coughlin

He is starting to go through the throwing motion, ... He's doing soft-toss, not for any distance.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Rob Niedermayer

I didn't want to go. I really wanted to stay. Things were starting to go well. I was pretty disappointed when I got traded.

Dan McCarney

I don't know who the starting kicker's going to be.

John Erwin

We'll do whatever we can do to assist,

William E. Conway, Jr.

If I'm going to create 1,000 jobs, or 10,000 jobs, or whatever the number is, wouldn't we all be better off?

Katharine Liell

It didn't matter. Whatever he said, he was going to be arrested, wasn't that true?

Orlando Dominguez

Whatever we can do to better our responses, we'll do.

Gary Brown

Whatever we can do for the kids, it's worth it.

Richard Lies

Whatever they want to do has yet to be worked out.

Chico Lynch

Whatever they did there, it has worked out well.

Robert Broadfoot

Whatever they achieve, the word that's going to be used will be cooperation, coordination.

Andre Cohen

Whatever she went through, I went through. We never separate.