All Quotes

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
‐‐ Gary Shteyngart

A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He said Perl is the duck tape of the Internet - it's this language that people would write all these scripts that make things just work.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.
‐‐ Marc Cherry

A lot of the work at Oculus has gone into working out better position tracking.
‐‐ John Carmack

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.
‐‐ Laurie Anderson

A lot of the writers I've known for 20 years, who used to say, 'Maybe they're right - the novel is dead!' - well, now they don't feel that it's necessarily the biggest job or most sacred calling on the planet. But it's definitely a real thing - it's always been here, always will be here, and one might just as well buckle down and get to work.
‐‐ Thomas McGuane

A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing.
‐‐ Freida Pinto

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
‐‐ Ice T

A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
‐‐ Nancy Johnson

A lot of them have families to feed, and I think it's a tragic situation where players aren't comfortable speaking what's on their mind or what's right because they're afraid of consequences that come along with it. That's not an ideal environment for anybody.
‐‐ Colin Kaepernick

A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.
‐‐ David Gill

A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
‐‐ Damian Lewis

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
‐‐ Matthew Barney

A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball.
‐‐ Pete Rose

A lot of these girls have a goal in life to find a rich guy. I can smell it from a mile away. They won't catch me! I know what they look like. They come with their little Kelly bag and their Rolex and the Louboutin shoes that are slightly too sexy. Shove off! Do you think I'm going to be the next sucker here?
‐‐ Jean Pigozzi

A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
‐‐ Randy Couture

A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.
‐‐ Jerry Rubin

A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to actually go out. They just really want to get a picture to post to their buddies, and that's about it.
‐‐ Dave Attell

A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
‐‐ Talib Kweli

A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
‐‐ Sam Worthington

A lot of these reality-TV shows people go on, they come off, and nothing happens. You never hear from them again. Fifteen seconds of fame is not the name of the game. No matter how big you break, or how many people you break in front of, you still have to slowly build a fan base to have anything loyal and lasting from people.
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling

A lot of these roles that I feel like I've had some sort of impact, or that have had an effect on me, have always been with directors who have the time to somehow get to know me. Any good director's going to be curious about who it is that's coming aboard.
‐‐ Elias Koteas

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.
‐‐ Linda M. Godwin

A lot of these types of films - the vigilante or revenge drama - were so popular in the '70s because there was a feeling in the culture of loss of control.
‐‐ James Wan

A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
‐‐ Mahesh Babu

A lot of things are out of my control, and that's all the other athletes. I can be the best I can ever be, and if there's someone better, they'll win the race. I'm aware of that.
‐‐ Mark de Jonge

A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
‐‐ Nate Silver

A lot of things come down to your roots and how you're brought up.
‐‐ Liam Smith

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
‐‐ Young Jeezy

A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.
‐‐ Burning Spear

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.
‐‐ Ivan Allen

A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.
‐‐ Frank Lampard

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves.
‐‐ Jimmy Dean

A lot of things I don't do well; I don't do warm and fuzzy well.
‐‐ Peter Weller

A lot of things I have turned down ended up being a big embarrassment. Like that script, 'The Beaver.' I thought that was one of the worst scripts I had ever read. But everyone said, 'Ooh it's on the Black List.' Yeah, well, good for it. They're a bunch of idiots. I saw the final film, and there were no surprises.
‐‐ Terry Zwigoff

A lot of things in my life changed, but I'm still a party animal. I'm leading the pack.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.
‐‐ Sally Phillips

A lot of things just aren't true any more.
‐‐ James L. Brooks

A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.
‐‐ John O. Brennan

A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.
‐‐ Gordon Smith

A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
‐‐ Ian Somerhalder

A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.
‐‐ Sandra Oh

A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
‐‐ Manolo Blahnik

A lot of things we don't have to have, but they're enjoyable.
‐‐ Joseph Prince

A lot of things we're supposed to do are hard to do, but we can do them. They're always beneficial. Really, some things that are hard are beneficial.
‐‐ Victoria Osteen

A lot of things went incredibly well for 'Scrubs': from a ridiculous number of downloads on the iPods, to whenever they issue a new season on DVD it kinda sells out, and we got nominated for an Emmy. To be picked up for six years is all gravy, man.
‐‐ John C. McGinley