The thing about looking back over Clinton's presidency, and probably anybody's presidency, is that when you look back, the events all line up in a way that makes sense. At the time, you don't know where it's going.
‐‐ Dee Dee Myers
The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.
‐‐ Patti Davis
The thing about Lucifer is that by the end of the first season, his world is falling apart a bit. Anyone that he could call an ally or trust, he now can't, and that leaves him in a place that he's never been before.
‐‐ Tom Ellis
The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.
‐‐ Rupert Everett
The thing about making a musical is that you can and will be replaceable really quickly.
‐‐ Megan Hilty
The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.
‐‐ Paul Lieberstein
The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
‐‐ Randy Neugebauer
The thing about Marvel is that they're not - they're into real acting. They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters. Even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else.
‐‐ Vincent D'Onofrio
The thing about me is, I don't care what religion you are. If someone is attacking your religion, I will have your back, and I will defend you. I think that is the most repulsive thing a person can do, attack another person's faith.
‐‐ Kirstie Alley
The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.
‐‐ Luke Ford
The thing about me is that I love variety. I like to try new things, and I don't want to be pinned back.
‐‐ Anton du Beke
The thing about members of your family is that if you met them for the first time at a party, you might not bother to take their phone number, and yet something binds you.
‐‐ Celia Imrie
The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.
‐‐ Hampton Sides
The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
‐‐ OMI
The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
‐‐ Gavin O'Connor
The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.
‐‐ Rob Marshall
The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.
‐‐ David Chase
The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.
‐‐ Alex Winter
The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.
‐‐ Julian Sands
The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.
‐‐ Grimes
The thing about my fridge is, it's a family fridge, so there's a little of something everybody likes in there.
‐‐ Martina McBride
The thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers.
‐‐ Vanessa Lachey
The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
‐‐ Neil Young
The thing about New York is it's like London: you want to go to the boutique places. You can go to the big department stores - Barney's, Bloomingdales and all that stuff - but I like the little stores.
‐‐ Bryan Greenberg
The thing about New York is, more than any other place I've ever been, you run into people on the street that you would never imagine you'd see, old friends, people just like there for a day or two. I find that all the time when I'm walking around Manhattan, running into people that I had no idea were even there.
‐‐ Michael Shannon
The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.
‐‐ Michael Rapaport
The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend.
‐‐ Eileen Myles
The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The thing about 'On the Doll,' I was doing 'Nip/Tuck' at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I've ever done before.
‐‐ Brittany Snow
The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don't know how. They don't know how to get involved.
‐‐ Hill Harper
The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.
‐‐ Zack Snyder
The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
‐‐ Ewan McGregor
The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.
‐‐ Malcolm Mclaren
The thing about Parsons compared to the other schools is that it really teaches you how to be a designer, whereas some of the other schools teach you to sketch or teach you the technical skills. But the curriculum at Parsons when I was there was how do you put a collection together, as well as all the technical stuff. It's the best training.
‐‐ Narciso Rodriguez
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
‐‐ Sydney Smith
The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt
The thing about places like Trinidad and Jamaica is that they can be very musically insular. There isn't much space for kids making hip-hop, electronic music, or hybrid genres.
‐‐ Jillionaire
The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.
‐‐ Tom Hiddleston
The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.
‐‐ Evelyn Glennie
The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.
‐‐ Alastair Campbell
The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.
‐‐ Ed Balls
The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
‐‐ Dale Archer
The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.
‐‐ Gabourey Sidibe
The thing about producing is that the pressure is off of being in front of the camera, and being critiqued and judged in that way, but there are other pressures producing.
‐‐ Sean Hayes
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.
‐‐ Billie Joe Armstrong
The thing about radio is that it's got an intimate feel. What I like is that you don't have to give it your full attention - you can still do something else that the same time, whereas TV is all-enveloping: you have to sit there and pay attention to it, and give yourself over to it. You have to surrender to it, but you don't with radio.
‐‐ Jarvis Cocker
The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.
‐‐ Eoin Colfer
The thing about Red Lanterns is that, while they have light powers and they have a power battery, they also have this weird shamanistic kind of blood magic side to them.
‐‐ Charles Soule
The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.
‐‐ Lynn Coady
The thing about relationships is, when you are in the middle of one, they consume your focus.
‐‐ Joshua Harris