All Quotes

A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think it's just a natural thing; it doesn't need to be categorized. It doesn't need to be sectioned, if you will.
‐‐ King Krule

A lot of people who have depression understand that the last thing in the world you want to do when you're feeling that way is get up and exercise. It's virtually impossible to do that. It's like somebody beating you.
‐‐ Dorothy Hamill

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.
‐‐ Susanne Bier

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.
‐‐ Alison Jackson

A lot of people who own a business aren't entrepreneurial at all.
‐‐ Carol Roth

A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was huge for me.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.
‐‐ Janet Jackson

A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
‐‐ Bernard Goldberg

A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
‐‐ Sally Schneider

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.
‐‐ Robert Rodriguez

A lot of people who watch figure skaters want us to look like pretty princesses. I want people to see the athlete, and I want to look like a woman among girls.
‐‐ Ashley Wagner

A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. - I spent a lot of time with Sammy. I was over at his house almost every night. Those people were very special and very special for me.
‐‐ James Darren

A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
‐‐ Van Morrison

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
‐‐ Jimmy Wales

A lot of people who work with Dre, you're lucky if anything sees the light of day.
‐‐ Anderson Paak

A lot of people who wrote for 'Sex and the City' have gone to write about marriage and motherhood.
‐‐ Liz Tuccillo

A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
‐‐ Rachel Miner

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel

A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!
‐‐ Selena Gomez

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.
‐‐ Cat Stevens

A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.
‐‐ Jane Howard

A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.
‐‐ Allegra Versace

A lot of people would think I have led this easy kind of charmed life, or maybe even a fairytale in some ways. But it has been anything but that.
‐‐ Alana Stewart

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.
‐‐ David Ortiz

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.
‐‐ Kenneth Clark

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.
‐‐ Renee Fleming

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.
‐‐ Trevor Nunn

A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.
‐‐ Emily Blunt

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.
‐‐ Joanne Froggatt

A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.
‐‐ Mario Testino

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'
‐‐ Duane Michals

A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

A lot of players have told me they see me as a protector of my teammates, that, side by side, I'm there when something goes down, and I step up beside them and for them when things get nasty. I play the game hard, and I play it physical.
‐‐ Ndamukong Suh

A lot of players know I've been around 13 years and this is my second lockout. I got a lot of respect. I know what's going on both for the league and the union.
‐‐ Paul Pierce

A lot of players might be tired, but I feel nice and sharp.
‐‐ Robbie Keane

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A lot of Playmates look like Playmates, but I look so girl-next-door and wholesome.
‐‐ Karen McDougal

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.
‐‐ Jim Jarmusch

A lot of Polish and Russian Jews had this experience: they would emigrate, thinking they were on their way to New York. Then their captains would stop in Dublin and say, 'Everybody off.' They would leave, and by the time they discovered they weren't in America, they didn't have enough money to continue.
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.
‐‐ Bonnie Raitt

A lot of politicians, not surprisingly, hire consultants to help them with their nonverbals, presence, generally how they come across.
‐‐ Amy Cuddy

A lot of politicians say they want to get people out to vote; sometimes you can't totally believe they really want that.
‐‐ Tom Golisano

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
‐‐ Ian Anderson

A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
‐‐ Serj Tankian

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.
‐‐ Norah Jones

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.
‐‐ Ariel Gore

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.
‐‐ Layne Staley

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.
‐‐ John Cusack