All Quotes

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'
‐‐ Noel Gallagher

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.
‐‐ Carrie Brownstein

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?
‐‐ Gilbert Gottfried

I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.
‐‐ Lynn Coady

I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
‐‐ Randy Pausch

I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money.
‐‐ Mick Mulvaney

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
‐‐ Orson Welles

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
‐‐ Karl Pilkington

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.
‐‐ Arsenio Hall

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
‐‐ Brad Holland

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything.
‐‐ Martha Beck

I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.
‐‐ John Niven

I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married.
‐‐ Al Franken

I've never understood why you would turn down a great role.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I've never used chat-up lines; I don't have the gift of the gab.
‐‐ Ricky Whittle

I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.
‐‐ Bill Laswell

I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
‐‐ Fatty Arbuckle

I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter... or anybody else's wife.
‐‐ Tommy Lasorda

I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension?
‐‐ Rasmus Lerdorf

I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'
‐‐ John Mayer

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.
‐‐ David Allan Coe

I've never wanted anything as much as I want to win the next Super Bowl.
‐‐ Jerry Jones

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
‐‐ Bill McCartney

I've never wanted to be a star, never.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Riva

I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.
‐‐ Roger Daltrey

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
‐‐ David LaChapelle

I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
‐‐ Queen Latifah

I've never wanted to be the boss.
‐‐ Harrison Ford

I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.
‐‐ Amanda Bynes

I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.
‐‐ Debi Mazar

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.
‐‐ Terence Stamp

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
‐‐ Irv Kupcinet

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.
‐‐ Roland Joffe

I've never wanted to drive a car fast for the sake of it. I mean, I like nice cars. I've got the Bentley, I've had a Lotus, I've had a Rolls-Royce and a few Jaguars, including an E-type. But I'm not somebody for driving tremendously fast.
‐‐ Terry Wogan

I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

I've never wanted to hear.
‐‐ Nyle DiMarco

I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.
‐‐ Rumer Willis

I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.
‐‐ Val McDermid

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.
‐‐ Adele

I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.
‐‐ Keith Urban

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.
‐‐ Richard O'Brien

I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

I've never watched an entire episode of 'American Idol'. It's too mean.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.
‐‐ Alan Moore

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.
‐‐ Mary Chapin Carpenter