All Quotes

I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I'm so busy.
‐‐ Carnie Wilson

I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.
‐‐ Joseph Kosinski

I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
‐‐ Rachael Taylor

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.
‐‐ Bobby Darin

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.
‐‐ Phoebe Snow

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.
‐‐ Kenny Chesney

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.
‐‐ Lusia Strus

I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.
‐‐ Frank Miller

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.
‐‐ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.
‐‐ Clyde Tombaugh

I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.
‐‐ Zendaya

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
‐‐ Charles Lindbergh

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.
‐‐ Keith Jarrett

I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation.
‐‐ Star Jones

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
‐‐ Carlos Santana

I realized that lab research was the perfect path for me. It allowed me to spend every day figuring out mysteries/puzzles that have to do with what make us alive. What could be a bigger mystery or puzzle?
‐‐ Bonnie Bassler

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.
‐‐ Guy Lafleur

I realized that my grandfather walked with Martin Luther King forty years ago. That was his dream. And in his little way, he helped us get closer to where we are today.
‐‐ Tim Daly

I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.
‐‐ Chantal Akerman

I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.
‐‐ James McGreevey

I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.
‐‐ Louie Schwartzberg

I realized that one of the differences between news photography and dance photography was that the former has to tell a specific story, whereas all a dance photograph had to be was visually interesting.
‐‐ Lois Greenfield

I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
‐‐ John Lasseter

I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.
‐‐ Catherine Mary Stewart

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.
‐‐ Helen Gahagan

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.
‐‐ Amy Jo Martin

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
‐‐ Melinda Gates

I realized that there was much more to my voice than I'd ever been led to explore and that I could make my own songs.
‐‐ Lia Ices

I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.
‐‐ Sonja Sohn

I realized that we have to do everything we can to preserve the Jewish race. I'm very proud of it, and I think it's wonderful.
‐‐ Harry Triguboff

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?
‐‐ Eric San

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
‐‐ Anna Quindlen

I realized that work doesn't beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.
‐‐ Brady Corbet

I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the computer, and you didn't have to go through this straitjacket, adding a lot of numbers.
‐‐ Herbert A. Simon

I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.
‐‐ Dino De Laurentiis

I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked.
‐‐ Bill Murray

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.
‐‐ Len Wein

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.
‐‐ David Bowie

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.
‐‐ Jane D. Hull

I realized there might be monetary or financial reasons to jump in and write a 'Winter's Bone Retriumphs' or something, and nobody would object to me doing that in publishing. But it would be a waste of my time, and they always take a little longer than you thought they would take.
‐‐ Daniel Woodrell

I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
‐‐ Queen Latifah

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
‐‐ Richard Pryor

I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That's been the focus while I'm in my thirties - to become an accomplished woman, rather than some actress.
‐‐ Diane Kruger

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.
‐‐ Michio Kaku