All Quotes

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.
‐‐ John Ridley

As a cosigner of the Veterans' Bill of Rights, I'm committed to making sure that veterans' issues remain a top priority in Congress.
‐‐ John Delaney

As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
‐‐ Patricia Norris

As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits to anticipate natural calamities when that is possible, to extend immediate and effective relief when it is not.
‐‐ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House.
‐‐ Blake Shelton

As a country with experience of coping with earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters, Japan believes in emphasizing the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction. We therefore prioritize investment in disaster prevention and post-disaster improvements under a policy of Build Back Better (BBB).
‐‐ Shinzo Abe

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.
‐‐ Mike Shinoda

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.
‐‐ Demetri Martin

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.
‐‐ Bibhu Mohapatra

As a creator, I always want to betray fans' expectations.
‐‐ Hideo Kojima

As a creator, I want my content to be where people can watch it.
‐‐ Benny Fine

As a crew, G.O.O.D. Music is taking it to levels that really haven't been done collectively. Kanye is someone who knows how to make classic albums, a true thinker. He got me in the mindset of being a true thinker and always planning out every move you got going.
‐‐ Big Sean

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.
‐‐ Lionel Barber

As a cultural product of both 'East' and 'West', I do not believe there is a fundamental basis for a clash of civilisations, or that the West is the cause of all problems.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
‐‐ Shelley Berman

As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.
‐‐ Tom Shadyac

As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is so cool, I can transform the earth and I can produce all this wealth. But we're blinded by our success in a naive way. There's more to life, actually, and I think the sustainability issue is also helpful in reminding us about that.
‐‐ Tino Sehgal

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'
‐‐ Alan Ball

As a culture, we're so worried about what's going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.
‐‐ Francis Chan

As a culture, we really like our food passive.
‐‐ Alexandra Kleeman

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a customer, I would see pieces that I loved and then find out they weren't being made because no store had ordered them.
‐‐ Aslaug Magnusdottir

As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.
‐‐ Stacy Keach

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.
‐‐ Peter Mullan

As a dad, it's kind of exciting to see that your son follows what you believe in so strongly.
‐‐ Connie Mack IV

As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.
‐‐ Jim Gaffigan

As a dancer, I'd dance with broken toes. Just like acting, you compete with yourself and drive forward. That discipline helped in Hollywood.
‐‐ Jaime Pressly

As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet in particular, is such a finite career. You can't do it later in life, and it's something that I think a dancer has to have some selfishness to fulfill.
‐‐ Amanda Schull

As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.
‐‐ Carmen Electra

As a dancer I've always checked my body constantly; 'Am I having a good day or am I having a fat day?'
‐‐ Bonnie Langford

As a dancer, it's hard because there's such a perfectionist quality that you really have to let go of while you're acting, because nobody wants to a watch a perfect person on screen.
‐‐ Kathryn McCormick

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.
‐‐ Maksim Chmerkovskiy

As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.
‐‐ Phyllis Smith

As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Damian Woetzel

As a dancer, you're told not to go into it for the money.
‐‐ Jillian Hervey

As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving you. So, now the shoe is on the other foot and I have to trust everyone else - I have to trust the dancer. As I was trusted as a dancer, I trust my dancers.
‐‐ Judith Jamison

As a dancing violinist, there have been a couple of moments where I'm like, 'Oops! This is an expensive mistake!'
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling

As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

As a decision maker, you rely on information being passed to you by the people who report to you. As the CEO, however, you cannot rely solely on this information. You also need to 'dip' down into your organization and learn directly from employees at all levels and virtually all skill sets.
‐‐ Scott Weiss

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.
‐‐ Gresham Barrett

As a Democrat in this Senate, I felt aggrieved by some things the other side has done. I have no doubt they feel aggrieved about some of the things we have done.
‐‐ Mark Pryor

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.
‐‐ Joyce Banda

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.
‐‐ Tom Ford

As a designer, I think you just have to make sure you know what you want and stay true to it. You need to have conviction and really just want to make people think in regards to doing interesting things.
‐‐ Thom Browne

As a designer looking to the future, you don't want to get lost in the archives.
‐‐ Chris Benz

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
‐‐ Harry von Zell

As a designer, when someone wears my clothes, the biggest compliment I can receive is that the woman looks amazing because my designs have flattered her, not taken over her. I take that philosophy to heart myself each morning when I am getting ready for the day.
‐‐ L'Wren Scott

As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad