All Quotes

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?
‐‐ Michael Arad

How do you do something where you're able to be specific and edgy enough to compete with what the cable networks are doing and, at the same time, appeal to a broader audience? That's the line that everyone in network television is trying to tread.
‐‐ Jason Katims

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.
‐‐ Joan Chen

How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.
‐‐ Robin Gibb

How do you fight when you're trying to pull somebody's arms off or twist their head off? That makes for a different kind of fight.
‐‐ Catherine Hardwicke

How do you find a buried city in a vast landscape? Finding it randomly would be the equivalent of locating a needle in a haystack, blindfolded, wearing baseball mitts.
‐‐ Sarah Parcak

How do you focus on jobs and creating opportunities for the next generation if it's just essentially a war on public employees and others?
‐‐ Steve Bullock

How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.
‐‐ Richard Simmons

How do you get things out of your head, out of your lab, and into the world? If you're not part of the economic community, there's a chance... you'll fall behind.
‐‐ George M. Church

How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?
‐‐ Gail Collins

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
‐‐ Jim Valvano

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
‐‐ Tavis Smiley

How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life.
‐‐ Claudia Rankine

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
‐‐ Francois Rabelais

How do you know Hollywood is getting serious about video games? They want to make one of their own. In 'Defiance,' the remaining humans on Earth, as well as alien species looking for a new home, find themselves settling for peace after a massive war desecrated the world and destroyed most of the alien ships along with it.
‐‐ Rob Manuel

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.
‐‐ Marlene Dietrich

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?
‐‐ Henry Reed

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
‐‐ John Abbott

How do you know someone is a grandparent? They've got milk stains on every shirt from burping babies. Their pants are worn out at the knees from crawling around giving pony rides. They have 2,842 pictures of the grandkids on their smart phone and not one photo of their spouse.
‐‐ Regina Brett

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?
‐‐ Lou Holtz

How do you know what people value? Well, you watch what they buy. How do we know what products to create? Well, it's based on what they value.
‐‐ Peter Senge

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
‐‐ J. D. Salinger

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
‐‐ Yann Martel

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
‐‐ Polly Toynbee

How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
‐‐ Tamra Davis

How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions.
‐‐ Mario Gabelli

How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!
‐‐ Robert Knepper

How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?
‐‐ Jose Padilha

How do you make something the same but different? That's the question I had to deal with in my approach to the cover painting for 'Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes.' I wanted it to have many similarities to 'Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,' but I knew they couldn't be too similar.
‐‐ John Rocco

How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?
‐‐ Antony Gormley

How do you make things fair?
‐‐ Al Sharpton

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz

How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time.
‐‐ Hasan M. Elahi

How do you measure your value?
‐‐ Loretta Lynn

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.
‐‐ Patrick Swayze

How do you observe something you can't see? This is the basic question of somebody who's interested in finding and studying black holes. Because black holes are objects whose pull of gravity is so intense that nothing can escape it, not even light, so you can't see it directly.
‐‐ Andrea M. Ghez

How do you photograph a gadget in a new, and not boring, way? You have to get away from people sitting in front of a computer. You have to get a look at the digital signature.
‐‐ Rick Smolan

How do you photograph data?
‐‐ Rick Smolan

How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

How do you play someone in a movie? How do you do that? It's impossible - unless you know how. How do you cut somebody open and take out their appendix and sew them back up and watch them get well? That's impossible - unless you know how.
‐‐ Tommy Lee Jones

How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well.
‐‐ Kirby Smart

How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
‐‐ Eddie Trunk

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it myself.
‐‐ Jimmie Johnson

How do you say one actor is better than another actor? You can definitely say that in the Olympics if it's the same race and someone wins the race. The only way to really do it and have it be sincere would be if you get all the actors together, and they're all playing the same part, and then you rate which one made you feel the most.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
‐‐ David Fincher