All Quotes

It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'
‐‐ Joe Jamail

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

It's not a bad time to be me.
‐‐ Eddie Vedder

It's not a bargain if it has bedbugs.
‐‐ Lara Spencer

It's not a break until you hold your serve.
‐‐ Greg Rusedski

It's not a case of 'look at me in my car'; it's more, 'look at the car'. I like the idea of other people enjoying them, because everything has become a bit faceless and nobody likes the motor car any more.
‐‐ Jay Kay

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.
‐‐ Kenneth Lonergan

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.
‐‐ Michael Scheuer

It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
‐‐ Bono

It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.
‐‐ Edward Ball

It's not a company of exponents of my style.
‐‐ Graeme Murphy

It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.
‐‐ Judy Davis

It's not a crime to get drunk.
‐‐ Joe Bob Briggs

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.
‐‐ Joss Stone

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.
‐‐ Silvan Shalom

It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.
‐‐ Deborah Moggach

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
‐‐ Steve Jobs

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
‐‐ Michael Korda

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

It's not a giant thrill to hear someone give you the label 'manic-depressive,' but to me I was so relieved. What I was suffering from had a name and could be treated.
‐‐ Patty Duke

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.
‐‐ John Malkovich

It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard.
‐‐ Kumar Mangalam Birla

It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.
‐‐ Ezra Klein

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
‐‐ Norman Mailer

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.
‐‐ Kurt Loder

It's not a great feeling for a film to suffer financially, but you can't sit and mope about it. You just have to just move on to next project - I try to always be working on a new project when my last one hits the theaters.
‐‐ Mike Binder

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.
‐‐ Bob Barr

It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
‐‐ Robert Ballard

It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
‐‐ Karl Pilkington

It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
‐‐ Sally Mann

It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.
‐‐ Steve Carell

It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.
‐‐ Christopher Lambert

It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit.
‐‐ Lucy Powell

It's not a matter of learning lines. It's a matter of getting into the ideas and the will of the person. It's a matter of, 'What does he want to do? What does he want to achieve?'
‐‐ Max von Sydow

It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?
‐‐ Laura Wade

It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
‐‐ Ed Wood

It's not a natural process, 'American Idol,' but it does great things for the people that are on that show. If you don't walk away from it with some kind of positive outlook or find an opportunity to come from it, then I feel like that's a choice.
‐‐ Crystal Bowersox

It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word primarily, and on screen it's communicated through pictures. So it's always been kind of unnatural to take something that lives on the stage and turn it into moving pictures.
‐‐ Tracy Letts

It's not a party unless I'm cooking. Some people find entertaining stressful, but it is therapeutic for me; I find it relaxing.
‐‐ Eva Longoria

It's not a party until the fire department shows up.
‐‐ Thom Filicia

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
‐‐ Ang Lee

It's not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don't look in the mirror at all, and I'm getting there.
‐‐ Hrithik Roshan

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
‐‐ Alan Jay Lerner

It's not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That's not a problem at all.
‐‐ Chris Kyle

It's not a problem to be great and do good things.
‐‐ Anthony Hemingway

It's not a problem to be surrounded by other writers if that's the craft that you're doing. I suppose if you get obsessed with the notion of being a writer more than the writing itself, that would be bad. But I live near really smart, thoughtful people who take writing very seriously, and I can meet them for breakfast and talk books.
‐‐ Phil Klay

It's not a question of McDonald's vanishing from the face of the earth. It's a question of these companies assuming some more responsibility for what they're selling.
‐‐ Eric Schlosser

It's not a question of size, of whether it's a small or a big thing, but of what it has the power to incarnate.
‐‐ Charlotte Casiraghi