All Quotes

Due to my business commitments, I am faced with time constraints and have not been able to personally spend as much time as I would like on my causes. These efforts are handled by my team of several people.
‐‐ Vincent Tan

Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.
‐‐ Patty Duke

Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects.
‐‐ Dan Hill

Due to my work, I tend to stay in hotels a lot of the time, and I generally prefer smaller hotels, as you tend to get better service than in the larger hotels.
‐‐ Jools Holland

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
‐‐ Francis Chan

Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.
‐‐ Dilma Rousseff

Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.
‐‐ Antony Gormley

Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.
‐‐ Brian Bosworth

Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.
‐‐ Ben Edwards

Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.
‐‐ Iain Duncan Smith

Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the strangest one I've ever done. I created six large, separate outlines, one for each part of the book, and hung them around my study.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

Due to these various circumstances, when I entered the Catholic University of Louvain in 1934, I had already travelled in a number of European countries and spoke four languages fairly fluently. This turned out to be a valuable asset in my subsequent career as a scientist.
‐‐ Christian de Duve

'Duel' is one of the greatest suspense films of all time.
‐‐ Greg Mottola

Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.
‐‐ Scott Speedman

Duh! So, we're asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?
‐‐ Charlie Sheen

Dukakis ran without understanding that there was a Democratic Party out in the land, and he never did call on it.
‐‐ Terry Sanford

Duke came to us. They volunteered to come to us and made a number of suggestions to some people on my staff. I don't know how I would characterize them, but there have been some discussions going back and forth between Duke and members of my staff.
‐‐ Gray Davis

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
‐‐ Lawrence Welk

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.
‐‐ John Bates Clark

Dullness is the enemy.
‐‐ Philip Johnson

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
‐‐ Josephus Daniels

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'
‐‐ Teddy Sears

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.
‐‐ Denis Dutton

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.
‐‐ Leonard Maltin

Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
‐‐ John Lydon

Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

Duncan Sheik and I are trucking along on 'American Psycho,' which is sort of the anti-Superman, you know? But it's a lot of fun, too, in a much, much darker way, obviously.
‐‐ Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.
‐‐ Kevin J. Anderson

'Dune' was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but 'Blue Velvet' was a very sleek, compact little experience.
‐‐ Kyle MacLachlan

Dungy, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has long believed that he, his staff and players should be as devoted to family time as they are to playing time, as focused on giving to charities as they are to taking the ball away from opponents.
‐‐ Don Yaeger

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
‐‐ Bill Russell

Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.
‐‐ Augusto Pinochet

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.
‐‐ Jonny Lang

During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.
‐‐ Tabatha Coffey

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.
‐‐ Gary Wolf

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.
‐‐ Alan Bradley

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
‐‐ Rachel McAdams

During a movie, you lose all ability to focus on your own interests. Your life is in service. After that you just want to disappear, switch off the phone, and sleep and watch movies for a month.
‐‐ Robert Richardson

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.
‐‐ Brian Koslow

During a panic attack, I remember that today is just today and that is all that it is. I take a deep breath in and I realize that in this moment I am fine and everything is okay. More importantly, I am reminded that my A.P.C. jeans are so perfectly worn in that they are appropriate for any season and I am suddenly at ease.
‐‐ Max Greenfield

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.
‐‐ Everett Dirksen

During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

During a time of war, we ask our troops to give their best even to the point of sacrificing their own lives. When compared against that, how much of a sacrifice is it for a president to engage in a possibly contentious debate with Congress about whether military action is a good idea?
‐‐ Tim Kaine

During a tournament, I'm not thinking about mechanics at all. I'm in scoring mode.
‐‐ Ernie Els

During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.
‐‐ Irene Rosenfeld

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.
‐‐ Melissa Bean

During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin