All Quotes

As soon as you make some films that people like, you'll be sent material, and that can come from anywhere.
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson

As soon as you pick up a guitar, you're up against the legends of rock. The same goes with stadium drum kits and electric bass. Essentially, you're already in a soundscape that's very familiar and has a lot of established legendary material recorded using those instruments.
‐‐ Matt Bellamy

As soon as you plow, you're releasing carbon.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

As soon as you're finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you're going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they'll spend months on it. So, you're editing out of sequence before you've gotten a film for the movie and the performances.
‐‐ Richard LaGravenese

As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

As soon as you say 'Bunnymen,' I see a trench coat.
‐‐ Brandon Flowers

As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.
‐‐ Randall Kennedy

As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.
‐‐ Tom Felton

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
‐‐ Coco Chanel

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.
‐‐ Theo Van Gogh

As soon as you start feeling like you can't trust the person and you need to check his phone or have his Facebook password or look through his messages - as soon as that trust barrier is broken - it's hard to keep a relationship going after that.
‐‐ Austin Butler

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.
‐‐ Phil Collins

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
‐‐ Jonathan Coe

As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.
‐‐ Avery Brundage

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.
‐‐ Megan Fox

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.
‐‐ Martha Beck

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
‐‐ Dean Smith

As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.
‐‐ Rudolf Hiferding

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.
‐‐ Brendan Fraser

As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure.
‐‐ Nick Lampson

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.
‐‐ Guy Debord

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
‐‐ James Hansen

As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years - the longest in the world.
‐‐ Robert Jarvik

As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember that unnecessary regulations stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health.
‐‐ Bob Beauprez

As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.
‐‐ Bill Richardson

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
‐‐ John Donne

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
‐‐ Jack Antonoff

As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.
‐‐ Madeleine Albright

As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly.
‐‐ Tibor Fischer

As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out.
‐‐ Robert Shea

As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
‐‐ Bo Bennett

As sustainability becomes more and more of a concern, we're going to see more plastics.
‐‐ Greg Lynn

As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy.
‐‐ Jim Costa

As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.
‐‐ Barbara Ann Radnofsky

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

As technology advances, so too does terrorists' use of technology to communicate - both to inspire and recruit. The widespread use of technology propagates the persistent terrorist message to attack U.S. interests, whether in the homeland or abroad.
‐‐ James Comey

As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.
‐‐ Jason Silva

As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
‐‐ Aaron Koblin

As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.
‐‐ Klaus Schwab

As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.
‐‐ Alex Shoumatoff

As technology progresses, and as it advances, many of us assume that these advances make us more intelligent, make us smarter and more connected to the world. And what I'd like to argue is that that's not necessarily the case, as 'progress' is simply a word for change, and with change you gain something, but you also lose something.
‐‐ Tom Wujec