All Quotes

As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.
‐‐ Gordon Ramsay

As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our evolutionary past, those attributes helped individuals to survive and reproduce.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.
‐‐ Melinda McGraw

As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.
‐‐ Daniel H. Wilson

As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.
‐‐ Daphne Koller

As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.
‐‐ Jennifer Pahlka

As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and right now the most dangerous thing to us are the differences between us.
‐‐ Richard Dooling

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
‐‐ Matt Gonzalez

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
‐‐ Naomie Harris

As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.
‐‐ Laura Wasser

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
‐‐ Lester B. Pearson

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member.
‐‐ Tommy Shaw

As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.
‐‐ Mike Mills

As a son of an airman who was stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson and a member of the House Armed Services Committee, it is my honor to nominate young people to our military academies.
‐‐ Ron Barber

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.
‐‐ Art Alexakis

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.
‐‐ Nate Ruess

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.
‐‐ Ben Gibbard

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.
‐‐ Rick Wakeman

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.
‐‐ Tom Cochrane

As a songwriter, it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.
‐‐ Stone Gossard

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.
‐‐ Jake Bugg

As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.
‐‐ Ric Ocasek

As a songwriter or artist, there's only so many ways you can say, 'I love you' or 'I think you're beautiful.'
‐‐ Tyler Farr

As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
‐‐ Halsey

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.
‐‐ Chang Chen-yue

As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award.
‐‐ Richard Marx

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
‐‐ K. D. Lang

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.
‐‐ Dierks Bentley

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!
‐‐ Dolly Parton

As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
‐‐ Ian Anderson

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.
‐‐ Lyle Lovett

As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget.
‐‐ Junior Seau

As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.
‐‐ Anna Netrebko

As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
‐‐ Al Franken

As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It's about the least flavorful bird on the planet.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
‐‐ Karin Slaughter

As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.
‐‐ Nathan Wolfe

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.
‐‐ Chris Milk

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
‐‐ Chaim Potok

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.
‐‐ Richard Louv

As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
‐‐ K. A. Applegate

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.
‐‐ Paul Allen

As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman