All Quotes

A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.
‐‐ Travie McCoy

A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us, afraid we'll get fat, afraid someone will leave us. Once you lose fear, life becomes sweeter, and that happens as you get older. I'm sure by the time I'm 80, I'll be able to do absolutely anything!
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.
‐‐ Paul Downs Colaizzo

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.
‐‐ Robert Sheckley

A lot of us feel that we are against the war; we are against profiling and are against what is happening. We are tired of war in every manifestation. American people do not all believe in what the government has been doing.
‐‐ Mira Nair

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
‐‐ Stephen King

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.
‐‐ Keith Miller

A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.
‐‐ Randy Couture

A lot of us spend our lives assuming we are going to get around to those things we want to do.
‐‐ Sean Patrick Maloney

A lot of us think we're invincible... but we have to start putting ourselves on the to-do list.
‐‐ Giuliana Rancic

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.
‐‐ Jim Clyburn

A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.
‐‐ Marco Brambilla

A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.
‐‐ Lee Grant

A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
‐‐ Robin Williams

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.
‐‐ Slash

A lot of Viners do more relatable stuff, but I try to stay away from that. I try to maybe take a relatable situation and Bach it up.
‐‐ King Bach

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.
‐‐ Chuck Feeney

A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.
‐‐ Jonah Peretti

A lot of weekend players struggle with putting because they have too much tension in their hands and arms, both at address and during the stroke. Tension can turn a technically perfect motion into a herky-jerky mess, especially on those knee-knockers.
‐‐ Jordan Spieth

A lot of weird things happen to me. People call out to me on the street and I figure I know them, and I walk over. And then they start to talk about a movie, and I get so embarrassed. Sometimes they think I'm Lorraine Bracco or Laura San Giacomo or Marisa Tomei. I'm sure it happens to them all the time, too.
‐‐ Annabella Sciorra

A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
‐‐ Sam Trammell

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.
‐‐ Howard Shore

A lot of what acting is paying attention.
‐‐ Nancy Reagan

A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
‐‐ Kacey Musgraves

A lot of what Groupon is generating is demand for something people didn't know they wanted.
‐‐ Jeremy Stoppelman

A lot of what happens in the world is full-on crazy and doesn't get reported on.
‐‐ Shane Smith

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!
‐‐ Brian Molko

A lot of what I do as a showrunner is anxiety control. People get nervous when they don't know what's going on, so a big part of my job is making sure everyone has all of the information all of the time.
‐‐ Glen Mazzara

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.
‐‐ Rory Bremner

A lot of what I do is running businesses rather than buying stocks. My worst decision is probably when I know I have the wrong chief executive running the business, and I keep on waiting to make the difficult decision of replacing him.
‐‐ Gerry Schwartz

A lot of what I experienced growing up in the U.S.S.R. and coming to the U.S. as an immigrant actually reflects itself in Whatsapp. Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.
‐‐ Jan Koum

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.
‐‐ Boz Scaggs

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
‐‐ Ira Sachs

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.
‐‐ Boy George

A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise - the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there's a pearl inside.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
‐‐ Kara Walker

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor

A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
‐‐ Laura Linney

A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions.
‐‐ Nolan Bushnell

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
‐‐ Bill Viola

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
‐‐ Iain Banks

A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.
‐‐ Neil Tennant

A lot of what you have seen with third-party groups - like the Tea Party - these folks are conservative, and they are fed up with people in Washington who are not working for them but against them.
‐‐ Tim Griffin

A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would argue is not really food. It's what I call edible, food-like substances.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.
‐‐ Daniel H. Pink