Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.
‐‐ Marisa Tomei
Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.
‐‐ Lester Holt
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
‐‐ Alexander Pope
Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.
‐‐ Miguel de Icaza
Not to have a big head about it, but people love me.
‐‐ Ryan Lochte
Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
‐‐ Plato
Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.
‐‐ Joseph Epstein
Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.
‐‐ Christopher Golden
Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?'
‐‐ Robert Hass
Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.
‐‐ Zbigniew Brzezinski
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
‐‐ Gabriel Byrne
Not to psychologize, but it's hard growing up in a family of 14 to ever feel like you're the center of the universe, or that you're that special or different. Because when it comes down to it, you're still fighting for food at the dinner table.
‐‐ Ronan Farrow
Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.
‐‐ Kathleen Hanna
Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz
Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.
‐‐ Maurice Strong
Not to say that you shouldn't strive for success, but don't forget why you're doing it. It's not just for adoration.
‐‐ Adrian Grenier
Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.
‐‐ Aja Naomi King
Not to say you should let your physicality define you, but there are some things that can make people feel really insecure. So, if there is something you want to fix that allows you to feel a little bit more confident, I support it.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels
Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write... it's flattering and it helps you during the day.
‐‐ Glenn Quinn
Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.
‐‐ Katy Perry
Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.
‐‐ Anderson Cooper
Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
‐‐ Ted Allen
Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.
‐‐ David Caruso
Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
‐‐ Nathan Lane
Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
‐‐ Lady Starlight
Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert
Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.
‐‐ George Thorogood
Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.
‐‐ Michael Imperioli
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
‐‐ Antisthenes
Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.
‐‐ Rich Little
Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.
‐‐ Eric Braeden
Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.
‐‐ Sun Ra
Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve.
‐‐ Jason Silva
Not too many people know what a pentathlon is or what's involved, which is why visiting schools is good because they can learn about it at a young age and hopefully try it out.
‐‐ Chloe Esposito
Not too many people know who the editor is.
‐‐ Julius Schwartz
Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs.
‐‐ David Limbaugh
Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
‐‐ Donald Sutherland
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
‐‐ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?
‐‐ Justin Bieber
Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.
‐‐ Paz Vega
Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
‐‐ Victoria de los Angeles
Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.
‐‐ Jidenna
Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.
‐‐ Charles Tennyson Turner
Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
‐‐ Rita Mae Brown
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
‐‐ Anne Tyler
Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.
‐‐ Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Not until the space shuttle started flying did NASA concede that some astronauts didn't have to be fast-jet pilots. And at that point, sure enough, women started becoming astronauts.
‐‐ Henry Spencer
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau