All Quotes

Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.
‐‐ Rob Thomas

Having great friends in New York is like having great friends on an expedition into Darkest Africa in the early 19th century. You need them. And you need sponsorship on a daily basis. I have a painter friend here who says, 'I need two compliments a day just to break even.' And we gave them to each other, and we got them - and honestly got them.
‐‐ Allan Gurganus

Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
‐‐ Jack Reed

Having grown up in a Catholic family, while I felt like I was never conscious of any blatant anti-Semitism, I was aware of a slightly insidious, us-versus-them mentality. A lot of my best friends and early girlfriends were Jewish, and I encountered what was more of a suburban small-mindedness, of people needing to defend their tribe.
‐‐ Greg Mottola

Having grown up in a military family, I know that politics should have no role in determining who is best qualified to lead our armed forces.
‐‐ Ron Barber

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
‐‐ Freida Pinto

Having grown up in Iceland and Los Angeles, gone to school in Europe and America, and lived and worked in London and New York, my insatiable appetite for travel has informed many of my life decisions.
‐‐ Aslaug Magnusdottir

Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were.
‐‐ Tony Hillerman

Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Having grown up on 'Star Trek,' I've had one great dream since childhood, and that is to see my life end somewhere other than here on Earth.
‐‐ Thomas P.M. Barnett

Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie 'Brother Sun, Sister Moon'... I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.
‐‐ Rich Mullins

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.
‐‐ Kathryn Harrison

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.
‐‐ Greta Scacchi

Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.
‐‐ Kylie Minogue

Having had five husbands, I guess I should know a thing or two about marriage.
‐‐ Joan Collins

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.
‐‐ Tom Selleck

Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.
‐‐ Nick Jonas

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.
‐‐ Stephen Harper

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
‐‐ Franklin Pierce Adams

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
‐‐ Rupert Holmes

Having inched closer and accomplished some of my major goals in the sport of golf, no pun intended, why not work as hard as I can to attain those goals if I'm already feeling like I'm playing well and getting more and more comfortable.
‐‐ Jordan Spieth

Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.
‐‐ Cindy Margolis

Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.
‐‐ Irwin Redlener

'Having it all' is such an intimidating concept. Just when you think you have all those plates spinning perfectly... something changes. It is a constant balancing act.
‐‐ Leigh-Allyn Baker

Having it all means different things to different people. I think it's an individual choice. Nothing is perfect. Everyone makes sacrifices. For me, it's worked out well. I have children. I have a very interesting career. But it's not for everybody.
‐‐ Renee James

Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

Having kids certainly gets me to ask the question, 'Who is the adult here, and who is the kid?'
‐‐ Christian Slater

Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.
‐‐ Joe Taslim

Having kids has been great for me. I have two beautiful step- kids, as well as my own new daughter. They've really helped me to keep my feet firmly on the ground, and life is good. I feel like I'm the luckiest guy here.
‐‐ Matt LeBlanc

Having kids has proven to be this amazing - for me, this amazing source of ideas of anecdotes, of examples, I can test my own kids without human subject permission, so they pilot - I pilot my ideas on them. And so it is a tremendous advantage to have kids if you're going to be a developmental psychologist.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
‐‐ Rachel Bilson

Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.
‐‐ John Travolta

Having kids is the deal-breaker on shyness! Once you have a baby, you learn to speak up loud and clear to protect them, defend them, and encourage them. I have three sons, so I've experienced that in triplicate.
‐‐ Lori Foster

Having kids makes you think about the world differently.
‐‐ Tony Fadell

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.
‐‐ Jamie Cullum

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
‐‐ Pericles

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.
‐‐ Randeep Hooda

Having led many negotiations with countries outside the E.U. in the past, we would never enter the same compromises and reach the same good outcomes with states that don't shoulder the responsibilities and costs of the common market.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
‐‐ Emily Bronte

Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.
‐‐ Yara Shahidi

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.
‐‐ Amy Winehouse

Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.
‐‐ Eric Burdon

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. I have four children, and they all became lawyers - as I was myself before I got into music.
‐‐ Clive Davis

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.
‐‐ Dave Eggers

Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.
‐‐ Kim Kardashian

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.
‐‐ Brett Ratner