All Quotes

I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.
‐‐ Rabbit Maranville

I've spent more time in Las Vegas than any other city, almost including L.A. where I live.
‐‐ Howie Mandel

I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.
‐‐ Jack Nicholson

I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
‐‐ Samaire Armstrong

I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.
‐‐ Don McCullin

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
‐‐ Benmont Tench

I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.
‐‐ Meg Rosoff

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
‐‐ Orson Welles

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.
‐‐ Kathleen Sebelius

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.
‐‐ Allan Sloan

I've spent my entire adult life involved in the community trying to help people live decent lives, working for a strong and secure state of Israel, and making sure that the most vulnerable in our society receive the care that they need.
‐‐ Ted Deutch

I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.
‐‐ Robert M. Gates

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.
‐‐ Al Franken

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.
‐‐ Sam Elliott

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.
‐‐ Jim Yong Kim

I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.
‐‐ Mindy McCready

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
‐‐ Howard Rheingold

I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.
‐‐ Gordon Bethune

I've spent my life being embarrassed.
‐‐ Jessica Chastain

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.
‐‐ Nick Cave

I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all.
‐‐ Mikko Hypponen

I've spent my life doing action films and most of my own stunts, so my teeth have been knocked out along the way. It happened so frequently that I can't even remember where I lost most of them.
‐‐ James Cosmo

I've spent my life following my passion.
‐‐ Roger Goodell

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.
‐‐ Mike Figgis

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
‐‐ Barry McGuigan

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
‐‐ Claire Bloom

I've spent my life supporting myself.
‐‐ Ann Beattie

I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
‐‐ Victor LaValle

I've spent my whole life before coming to Congress as a Chamber of Commerce manager. What that means is you help start small businesses, help them grow in good times and bad.
‐‐ Kevin Brady

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?
‐‐ Jeremy Paxman

I've spent my whole life in airports. I don't come home but every two and a half months, which is pretty crazy.
‐‐ Alison Mosshart

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.
‐‐ Ana Castillo

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
‐‐ Sally Ride

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.
‐‐ Donna Shalala

I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.
‐‐ Guy Gavriel Kay

I've spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.
‐‐ Kevin Harrington

I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.
‐‐ Jeff Zucker

I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
‐‐ Sharon Salzberg

I've spent quite a bit of time in East Africa.
‐‐ Greg Wise

I've spent several years now with my head down.
‐‐ Stephan Jenkins

I've spent so many years commuting, I kind of prefer a home office.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich

I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.
‐‐ Matt Roper

I've spent so much of my life travelling alone, so I keep things to myself.
‐‐ Rohan Bopanna

I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.
‐‐ Chris Messina

I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.
‐‐ Nicholas Lea

I've spent so much time with iambic pentameter that I can now recognize it when I hear it in conversation or a movie - it's like a weird, useless superpower.
‐‐ Ian Doescher

I've spent so much time with my dad traveling and seeing the ground-level change that we've been able to make through philanthropy and trip over trip, time over time, country over country, home after home we've been invited into, given tea, given food that people didn't have to give us, I mean all of these things.
‐‐ Howard Warren Buffett