All Quotes

If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.
‐‐ Cameron Sinclair

If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action.
‐‐ Chris Moneymaker

If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.
‐‐ Thich Nhat Hanh

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
‐‐ Van Morrison

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.
‐‐ Andy Stanley

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
‐‐ Andrew Young

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.
‐‐ Bill Kurtis

If you're a professional athlete, and after the game, you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You're making a mistake.
‐‐ John Salley

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.
‐‐ Katrina Kaif

If you're a public official, your life is an open book.
‐‐ Rodrigo Duterte

If you're a publisher and you forbid deep linking into your site, or have a paid wall or registration requirement, then you're making it hard to 'point to' your content. When no one points to your content, your content is harder to find because search uses links as a proxy for popularity.
‐‐ John Battelle

If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.
‐‐ Tom Brady

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.
‐‐ Helena Bonham Carter

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
‐‐ David Halberstam

If you're a representative, you listen to your constituents, and then you go vote their conscience. You don't go vote your special interest buddies' interest and then come back and justify it.
‐‐ Paul Nehlen

If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.
‐‐ Vito Fossella

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.
‐‐ James Chanos

If you're a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When you're on television, you're removed from that.
‐‐ Alaina Huffman

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
‐‐ Mickey Spillane

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
‐‐ Bradley Cooper

If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

If you're a speech writer for a president, you don't really see all that much of him because there's so many layers between you and him. But with a vice president, it's different.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.
‐‐ Thomas Lennon

If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.
‐‐ Patti Stanger

If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

If you're a surfer, you just want to surf. You don't know if anyone's going to see you, and you don't really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld

If you're a technology investor, and you decide that you're also going to be a healthcare investor or a green-tech investor, that doesn't usually work out that well. There are reasons why people make their careers studying these things and becoming experts.
‐‐ Bill Maris

If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

If you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist.
‐‐ Leon Panetta

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
‐‐ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.
‐‐ Kelly Ripa

If you're a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound trite - but it's the reality, and part of my personality - yet when I was a waiter, I tried to be the best waiter, and when I was a bingo-caller I tried to be the best bingo-caller.
‐‐ Russell Crowe

If you're a white person in the wrong neighborhood, you're an underdog.
‐‐ Robin Thede

If you're a wildlife filmmaker and you're going out into the field to film animals, especially behavior, it helps to have a fundamental background on who these animals are, how they work and, you know, a bit about their behaviors.
‐‐ Mike deGruy

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.
‐‐ Louis C. K.

If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
‐‐ Eve Best

If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'
‐‐ Katie Aselton

If you're a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer away, another woman is being flogged. And you might want to find your own way to protest that.
‐‐ Amal Clooney

If you're a wounded company, the other companies that have been around for a hundred years will smell it, and they will take advantage of you in a heartbeat. It takes a long time to get back in fighting form.
‐‐ Douglas Conant

If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.
‐‐ Esperanza Spalding

If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's block or how to deal with any problem that can come up - whether you're writing about yourself or a group of people, I find that very interesting.
‐‐ Jim Rash

If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
‐‐ Dana Brunetti

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
‐‐ Caitlin Flanagan

If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.
‐‐ Tom Waits

If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.
‐‐ Colum McCann

If you're a writer, you're always working.
‐‐ Alan Furst