All Quotes

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.
‐‐ Boz Scaggs

As a guy that had been told to drop out many times as I was coming up, I don't think you should tell any candidate about what they should do and what decisions they should make.
‐‐ Cory Booker

As a guy that's the 10th of 11 kids, families work through problems by talking and communicating; so, too, does the government.
‐‐ Sean Duffy

As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.
‐‐ Alicia Sacramone

As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter.
‐‐ Bruce Bennett

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
‐‐ Magdi Yacoub

As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
‐‐ Garret Dillahunt

As a high-school drop-out, I knew I wanted to write, but I wasn't overly confident that I was going to be writing anything serious. I was happy enough with the idea that I could be a penny-a-word guy and survive.
‐‐ Daniel Woodrell

As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high school diploma through the G.I. Bill led me to attend college and law school and allowed me the opportunity to serve in Congress.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel

As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to go out the window. I decided the history in the books should be like spice in a soup - a little went a long way. Like cilantro.
‐‐ Deborah Harkness

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
‐‐ Doris Kearns Goodwin

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.
‐‐ Li Peng

As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
‐‐ Carl Hagelin

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'
‐‐ Clarence Clemons

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.
‐‐ Roseanne Barr

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peace. I'm concerned about - about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy.
‐‐ Eileen Myles

As a human being, I'm work in process.
‐‐ John Lydon

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.
‐‐ Nicholas Ray

As a human being, you can't not connect to the chaos that exists around the world on a day-to-day, or things that you've seen on the news just here domestically.
‐‐ Elizabeth Rodriguez

As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.
‐‐ Jim Parsons

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
‐‐ Charlotte Bunch

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and opportunities as my daughters.
‐‐ Mike Quigley

As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.
‐‐ Denis McDonough

As a Japanese actor, I really want to work with a lot of actors and actresses in the world and many directors who have many different kinds of talents. I feel like nationally doesn't matter at all.
‐‐ Ken Watanabe

As a Jew, even if you were not born in Poland, the very name, Poland, gives rise to a shuddering in your body and a longing in your heart. This country was the breeding ground for the soul of the Jewish nation, and unfortunately, also grounds to the largest Jewish cemetery.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
‐‐ Jan Schakowsky

As a Jew, I recognize the importance of Israel historically, liturgically: its place in our history and in our sacred texts. I fully recognize and appreciate that. I just think that, for me, a sole focus on Israel gets in the way of the pursuit of a relationship with God and a more spiritual existence within Judaism.
‐‐ David Gregory

As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part of what I learned when I learned about the Second World War and the concentration camps.
‐‐ Judith Butler

As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life of Brian' - if people actually live what he did, it would be a pretty good world. But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.
‐‐ David Javerbaum

As a jobbing actor, I never get a script and go 'I can't be bothered with this.' Life doesn't work like that. For a movie star, maybe, but for a jobbing actor, that doesn't happen.
‐‐ Eve Myles

As a jobbing actor, you can't afford to be choosy; if you're typed, you're generally working. I still feel that way, and the thing is, even within the horror genre, I now get to play all kinds of different roles.
‐‐ Robert Englund

As a journalist, a big part of what you do is search for drama and conflict. And a lot of the backstory with 'Billions' is grounded in my journalistic background.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.
‐‐ David Maraniss

As a journalist, I cannot help imagining with excitement a new era with a face-off between Hedi Slimane at YSL and Raf Simons at Dior - a magnificent battle of style and wills to echo the Armani/Versace, Gucci/Prada or even Chanel/Schiaparelli face-offs of earlier years. But I remind myself that this is not a game of chess.
‐‐ Suzy Menkes

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
‐‐ Anita Diament

As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.
‐‐ Michael Azerrad

As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they have of what people are really feeling in a country. Especially CIA guys. Maybe they're just really good at playing stupid, but I don't think so.
‐‐ Scott Anderson

As a journalist, I've always treaded carefully about being Jewish and caring a lot about Israel and having that not become too big of an issue that could affect my journalism. But I also don't think it's essential to my Judaism, as I think it might be for some other people.
‐‐ David Gregory

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.
‐‐ Linda Vester

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.
‐‐ Peter Jennings

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.
‐‐ James McBride