All Quotes

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
‐‐ Marian Wright Edelman

A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.
‐‐ John Tesh

A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy.
‐‐ Carmen Dell'Orefice

A lot of people ask for sequels, but what they really want is just to know the characters are happy and safe.
‐‐ Kristan Higgins

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.
‐‐ Matt de la Pena

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you going to do a sequel to 'The Guest' or 'You're Next?'' - those movies weren't financially viable, so even though there are a lot of fans of it, it'd be a pretty small market we'd be appealing to. It's got to be a big hit for you to really justify that.
‐‐ Adam Wingard

A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard enough for a person to do just one thing well in their life. I don't want to do too much.
‐‐ Gong Li

A lot of people ask me, 'What is your goal now that you have done everything?' And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it's all new to me.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
‐‐ Jackie Chan

A lot of people ask me, when I mention I'm from Australia, that I must have been on 'Home And Away,' and I tell them was one of the few who didn't take that route. That's because I auditioned for 'Home And Away,' and I didn't get booked, so you'd call that a knock back.
‐‐ Claire Holt

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.
‐‐ Joan Jett

A lot of people ask, 'What's the best advice Tina Fey's given you?' But she doesn't, like, go about doling out advice - like, 'I've got another tip for you!'
‐‐ Ellie Kemper

A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.
‐‐ Zac Efron

A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.
‐‐ Karen Duffy

A lot of people assume I have a great hat collection, but kids steal my hats at every show. I've had all these hats that I've loved, but now they're in some little kids' possession. It's difficult to replenish. I don't think the kids realize this.
‐‐ Mac DeMarco

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
‐‐ Bill Gates

A lot of people assume that once you're working in Hollywood you become some sort of glamour-diva, which could not be further from the truth about me.
‐‐ Megyn Price

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.
‐‐ Jaime Lerner

A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
‐‐ Olivia Wilde

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.
‐‐ Sanford I. Weill

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
‐‐ Jacques Yves Cousteau

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.
‐‐ Matt Groening

A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.
‐‐ Eric Ripert

A lot of people believe what other people say.
‐‐ B. B. King

A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable.
‐‐ Masaharu Morimoto

A lot of people call me gay because they don't see me with anyone.
‐‐ Sharon Jones

A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.
‐‐ Little Richard

A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don't think it.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
‐‐ Ron White

A lot of people can have a lot of different influences, everyone can be compared in some way to someone whether they are from 60 years ago or more recent.
‐‐ Leona Lewis

A lot of people can raise money.
‐‐ Andrew Mason

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
‐‐ Jack Nicholson

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
‐‐ Bob Dylan

A lot of people cannot dance because they are inhibited. 'Oh, I can't dance' or 'I have two left feet' or maybe someone has commented on their dancing a while back. When you enjoy something, you might be doing the simplest of moves, but they still look so beautiful.
‐‐ Madhuri Dixit

A lot of people celebrate their past, but I don't look at it all. I don't Google myself; I focus on the future. This is a volatile profession, and the moment you start thinking you've got something, that's when the floor beneath you falls through, so I hope to make more movies and TV shows.
‐‐ Sean Maguire

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.
‐‐ Craig Ferguson

A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that.
‐‐ Alison Brie

A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.
‐‐ Sia Furler

A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts used to have friends visit on 'Pretty Woman.'
‐‐ Garry Marshall

A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it.
‐‐ Mike Posner

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.
‐‐ Pierre Salinger

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.
‐‐ Chino Moreno

A lot of people didn't feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things.
‐‐ Jeremy Corbyn

A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.
‐‐ Maria Menounos

A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.
‐‐ Hulk Hogan

A lot of people do comedy about India, but they're not from India. It's a Kwik-E-Mart perspective. I want to provide a genuine view and maybe one on how we see the West.
‐‐ Vir Das

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.
‐‐ Phil McGraw

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.
‐‐ Art Alexakis

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
‐‐ Les Brown