All Quotes

I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
‐‐ Gabe Newell

I consider Billy Keeler, Mike Tiernan, Ed Delihanty and Larrie La Joie the toughest hitters I had to pitch to, but I did not dread them. Remember, Hughie Duffy was a member of our team, so I did not face him. In my opinion, Duffy was the greatest hitter.
‐‐ Kid Nichols

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.
‐‐ Jurgen Habermas

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.
‐‐ Ze Frank

I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
‐‐ Nathan Fillion

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.
‐‐ Daymond John

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.
‐‐ Andra Day

I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.
‐‐ Konrad Lorenz

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
‐‐ Buddy Rich

I consider everything I compose a gift.
‐‐ Keith Emerson

I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
‐‐ Dean Kamen

I consider I've had a good day when, among the lines I've written, I've produced from my innermost core what I call 'the appearance of the pearl.' That could refer to a discovery, a sense of harmonious cohesiveness, or something like that.
‐‐ Ismail Kadare

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.
‐‐ Bill Brandt

I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.
‐‐ Heber J. Grant

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
‐‐ Barack Obama

I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.
‐‐ Joe Baca

I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
‐‐ Naguib Mahfouz

I consider Lena Dunham a comedian.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
‐‐ John Calvin

I consider most of the talent in the financial world to be suboptimal. It could be better placed earning its living in the real world.
‐‐ Jeremy Grantham

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
‐‐ Jack White

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
‐‐ James Broughton

I consider my girls the greatest gift from God in life. And I also love the career that I have built, lost and rebuilt. But the highs and lows of my career would not have been as exciting or manageable to me if I didn't have children and a partner for life with whom to share it all.
‐‐ Mika Brzezinski

I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.
‐‐ Jonathan Nolan

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.
‐‐ Alexa Vega

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.
‐‐ John Frusciante

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.
‐‐ Erykah Badu

I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'
‐‐ Mara Wilson

I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.
‐‐ Tommy Kirk

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.
‐‐ Bob Graham

I consider myself a bassist first.
‐‐ Casey Abrams

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
‐‐ Aaron Stanford

I consider myself a boy in a dress.
‐‐ Bridget Kelly

I consider myself a brown American or a man of color before I would say Sri Lankan, to be honest. I didn't grow up there. There was a pretty brutal civil war there from 1983 until 2009. So we weren't able to go back very much. I've gone back as an adult. But I grew up in Pennsylvania.
‐‐ Sunil Yapa

I consider myself a character actor.
‐‐ Brittany Murphy

I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.
‐‐ Marv Levy

I consider myself a composer.
‐‐ Timbaland

I consider myself a court jester - motivator.
‐‐ Richard Simmons

I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.
‐‐ Gary Locke

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
‐‐ T. J. Miller

I consider myself a feminist because I believe women should have equal rights. Of course. It's just that the term 'feminism' conjures up other things for people.
‐‐ Marina and the Diamonds

I consider myself a feminist living in a post-feminist era.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

I consider myself a fortunate working actor, but I really work at it all the time. If I have a couple of weeks off, I'm taking class. You never stop. I started when I was 10 years old in Cleveland, and I've never stopped working my butt off.
‐‐ Reggie Lee

I consider myself a free man and a citizen of the world.
‐‐ Gerard Depardieu