All Quotes

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
‐‐ Mickey Mantle

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.
‐‐ Aubrey de Grey

As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.
‐‐ Sylvester McCoy

As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic expectation. Black people don't love anybody but themselves.
‐‐ John McWhorter

As far as I'm concerned, any work you get is because people have heard other work you've done.
‐‐ Jon Brion

As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you reach your goal, then that's the box ticked for me. I don't feel the need to repeat titles or repeat victories; as soon as I get the one, then I'm happy.
‐‐ Lizzie Armitstead

As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person naturally smells. I'd say that within the first five seconds of 'inhaling' someone, I know if there's an attraction or not. This may sound animalistic - and it is.
‐‐ Rachel Nichols

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
‐‐ Patti Smith

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
‐‐ Edgar Winter

As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.
‐‐ Sylvester McCoy

As far as I'm concerned: Chris Pratt for president! He'd save us.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.
‐‐ Lesley Gore

As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.
‐‐ Theodore Sturgeon

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing.
‐‐ Les Paul

As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose.
‐‐ Sinead O'Connor

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia

As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I'd grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That's like losing a dog.
‐‐ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry.
‐‐ Soundarya

As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The Red Violin' film, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn't normally do in my world.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
‐‐ Jack Levine

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
‐‐ Edith Piaf

As far as I'm concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressiveness and also a finesse that no one else possessed. And he won with everything he put his hands on, including off-road.
‐‐ Mario Andretti

As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.'
‐‐ Troy Duffy

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
‐‐ Mose Allison

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
‐‐ Tom Peters

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
‐‐ Charles de Lint

As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

As far as I'm concerned, the stakes are always very high. Whether it's playing at the White House or playing for a group in my own house - you know, one of those soirees I play in. Once I start playing, the stakes are somehow higher, in a way, than any of the context.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.
‐‐ Moby

As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
‐‐ Garry Trudeau

As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.
‐‐ Mark Wahlberg

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
‐‐ George Harrison

As far as I'm concerned, Twitter has wiped out Facebook. I'm done with Facebook.
‐‐ Kevin O'Leary

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
‐‐ Calvin Trillin

As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults.
‐‐ Richard K. Morgan

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
‐‐ Albert Claude

As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.
‐‐ Jane Siberry

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.
‐‐ Claude Chabrol

As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.
‐‐ Eavan Boland

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.
‐‐ Lesley Garrett

As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.
‐‐ Timothy Ferriss

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.
‐‐ Luis Gutierrez

As far as influences, I listen to a lot of people like Nina Simone and other androgynous voices, almost to make me feel like I'm not alone.
‐‐ Shamir

As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.
‐‐ Dan Shechtman

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
‐‐ Mary Augusta Ward

As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.
‐‐ Donald Evans

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.
‐‐ Peter T. King

As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
‐‐ Garry Hynes

As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
‐‐ Yitzhak Rabin