All Quotes

As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
‐‐ Lance Loud

As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.
‐‐ Denis McDonough

As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn't be surprised to see the iPhone operating system running on them - and the Macintosh eventually becoming a thing of the past.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.
‐‐ Michael Arad

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.
‐‐ Meredith Monk

As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect.
‐‐ Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

As artists, our primary function is not to be educators - but we are at a time in history, where for us, our history needs to give context for stories that we hope to tell down the road.
‐‐ David Oyelowo

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it.
‐‐ Mike Colter

As artists, we'd all love to not be commercial - to not sell out to the full extent that we are able. But you do what you have to do to pay New York rent and continue to do what you feel strongly about.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.
‐‐ Phylicia Rashad

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.
‐‐ Paul Haggis

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.
‐‐ Ang Lee

As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

As artists, we thrive when we can express our comfort and our discomfort. If a certain scene is really challenging for us, if we're in an environment where we feel safe, we're able to do our work.
‐‐ Aja Naomi King

As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that it was kind of a joke among his children, would be accused of being disloyal to America.
‐‐ David Henry Hwang

As Asian-Americans, we just don't often get the chance to tell the story from a leading person's perspective. And so I took jobs where they came, and they were always in the ensemble, and if it required me to play multiple instruments I did that, and if it was as a puppeteer, I did that. That's just how I was cast; that's how I was employed.
‐‐ Ruthie Ann Miles

As aspiring athletes, you should never give up on your dreams. Just believe in yourself, and everything will be possible.
‐‐ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.
‐‐ Matt Groening

As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
‐‐ Landon Donovan

As athletes, our job is to train and compete.
‐‐ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
‐‐ Landon Donovan

As athletes, we love to say, 'Just one more; I'm going to figure it out on this next one.' It's tough to pull back the reins and do what is smart physically, listening to your body and always ending a workout or session feeling like I could have done more.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

As athletes, we're always going to have aches and pains, but when your teammates cheer you on, you don't think about it.
‐‐ Simone Biles

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
‐‐ Dan O'Brien

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
‐‐ Michael Jordan

As athletes, we sit and think, when international media or whoever make judgments or statements about Jamaica, 'Why aren't members of our federation coming out and speaking up for us?'
‐‐ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget.
‐‐ Ben Chandler

As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.
‐‐ Ben Chandler

As Attorney General, my most important responsibility is keeping New Yorkers safe by enforcing the laws that protect our people from harm. But another fundamental part of my job is to seek to advance the basic American principle of equal justice under law.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.
‐‐ John Burnside

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.
‐‐ Nick Cave

As 'Austrian' business cycle theory has pointed out, any bank credit inflation sets up conditions for boom-and-bust; there is no need for prices actually to rise.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

As authors evolve and try to trace the precedents that have shaped their work, it sometimes becomes a matter of identifying the shadowy figure in the back row of the mental photograph, or of grabbing at the tail of a memory that's just slipping out the window into thin air.
‐‐ Virginia Euwer Wolff

As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
‐‐ Patrick Rothfuss

As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.
‐‐ Joanne Harris

As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.
‐‐ Catherine Ryan Hyde

As awesome as it is to be with a big act and get three catered meals a day and get a dressing room with an actual shower in it, it's hard sometimes as a new artist to come across in 25 minutes. You get 25 minutes to hopefully impress these people. I think the longer set is more suitable for us and gives us an opportunity to connect better.
‐‐ David Nail

As awkward as it sounds. I'm not Shane Larkin, Barry Larkin's son, anymore. It's Barry Larkin, the father of Shane Larkin.
‐‐ Shane Larkin

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.
‐‐ Leon Kass

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.
‐‐ Joshua Foer

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
‐‐ Abel Ferrara

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.
‐‐ Josef Albers

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.
‐‐ Laura Nyro

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
‐‐ John Hurt

As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans - and credit histories - to millions of people who currently lack access to them.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.
‐‐ Bobby Ray Inman

As between mileage and experience choose experience.
‐‐ Clifton Fadiman

As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
‐‐ Ben Stein

As big a deal as the Super Bowl is, it's not the most important thing going on in the planet.
‐‐ Tony Dungy