All Quotes

I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the U.K. to prove that was the case.
‐‐ Stuart Rose

I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts.
‐‐ Kristen Bell

I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
‐‐ Yves Chauvin

I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly.
‐‐ Alan Sugar

I have always been an independent voice for the folks in my district.
‐‐ Ann Kirkpatrick

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.
‐‐ Lisa Kleypas

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.
‐‐ Michael Vick

I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
‐‐ Lech Walesa

I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered.
‐‐ Mary Szybist

I have always been attracted to Australians and Australia.
‐‐ Elizabeth Hurley

I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan. They have a little more - how do I put it? - understanding.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

I have always been attracted to difficult work. There really doesn't seem much point in looking for the easy life as an actor. I would simply get bored.
‐‐ Robert Powell

I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
‐‐ Derek Bailey

I have always been averse to theorizing about the art or craft of biography. Like Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, who offers the cautionary analogy of the biographical centipede unsure of her next step because of too much cerebration, I have made it my practice to let the facts find the theory.
‐‐ David Levering Lewis

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
‐‐ Damien Hirst

I have always been bullish about India's potential. I still am, and I feel India is a country that really has an enormous amount of potential and has the human capital to succeed.
‐‐ Ratan Tata

I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on 'Felicity' that was modeled after me, actually.
‐‐ Greg Grunberg

I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.
‐‐ Malaika Arora Khan

I have always been comfortable that no one has been able to assess what I really have.
‐‐ Kerry Stokes

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.
‐‐ Mario Monti

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
‐‐ J. B. Priestley

I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floating about. I don't read it for legal reasons, but I'm thrilled to know it's there. Someone cared. Someone loved it enough to spend their free time writing about it for free.
‐‐ Catherynne M. Valente

I have always been down to test what I can do and push the limits of my acting. I have always wanted to try new genres and stuff - but I love comedy. I grew up on comedy, and I love having a good time and making people laugh. But it is also really nice to switch it around and make people think and feel some darker emotions.
‐‐ Devon Bostick

I have always been drawn to child-related causes. I find that people listen to me more when I advocate for children now that I have my own.
‐‐ Jennifer Garner

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.
‐‐ Emily Giffin

I have always been drawn to fashion from an aesthetic and consumer standpoint. I honestly never thought that I could take my business training and apply it here. I worked in retail and was into fashion. It was something I liked, and people trusted my opinion.
‐‐ Imran Amed

I have always been drawn to the Restoration period of Charles II. I have a soft spot for Charles Stuart, who was always loving and kind to the opposite sex. The members of his court were fascinating, and Barbara Castlemaine was one of the greatest courtesans in history.
‐‐ Virginia Henley

I have always been drawn to young characters and seeing big tapestries through the eyes of a child. It probably comes from being a father myself and having a young son and seeing the world through his eyes. I write stories that are sort of the exaggerated version of that.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire

I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.
‐‐ Martin Winterkorn

I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.
‐‐ Alastair Campbell

I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
‐‐ Samantha Shannon

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
‐‐ Sam Walton

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
‐‐ Gary Numan

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
‐‐ Gavin Rossdale

I have always been fascinated by fashion. I never had any interest in waiting tables or bar-tending, so retail was sort of my best option.
‐‐ Brandon Uranowitz

I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.
‐‐ Kathryn Lasky

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
‐‐ Joe Eszterhas

I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.
‐‐ Anne Roiphe

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
‐‐ Trudi Canavan

I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.
‐‐ Henry Petroski

I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America, so, granted, it is part of our heritage, and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.
‐‐ Joe Perry

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.
‐‐ Al Gore

I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.
‐‐ Deepika Padukone

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

I have always been Fred Durst and I've always been me.
‐‐ Fred Durst

I have always been free with my love - it is my nature. I am easily captivated by men and they have always been attracted to me.
‐‐ Christine Keeler