All Quotes

My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
‐‐ Karan Johar

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
‐‐ Slavoj Zizek

My instinct is probably one of the strongest assets I've got, workwise.
‐‐ Gina McKee

My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.
‐‐ Michael Hirst

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.
‐‐ Evan Davis

My instinct is to be very controlling.
‐‐ Gary Kemp

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
‐‐ Lee Grant

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.
‐‐ Clifford Geertz

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

My instincts are not comedic.
‐‐ Josh Lucas

My instincts tell me that you will spiral into a very unhealthy place if you start pondering about how other people think about you and, quite frankly, I don't want to go there.
‐‐ Jodhi May

My instruction to my parents is that I would rather they enjoy their retirement than leave me anything when they go. I am much happier watching them enjoying life.
‐‐ Richard C. Armitage

My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what I'm saying?
‐‐ CeeLo Green

My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I just think it is time that we stop viewing public figures as fair game.
‐‐ David Blunkett

My integrity means more to me than any fame or money. When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it.
‐‐ Tim Tebow

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
‐‐ Suzanne Vega

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.
‐‐ John Kricfalusi

My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.
‐‐ Betty Who

My intent is never to leave Latin music. I definitely still want to release bachata albums.
‐‐ Prince Royce

My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the day, I want people to see a good protagonist struggle against serious odds and do so with courage and honor and integrity.
‐‐ Brad Thor

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.
‐‐ Jack Kevorkian

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.
‐‐ Tom Rachman

My intent was to go to law school... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.
‐‐ Kevin Rahm

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
‐‐ Maurice Ravel

My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen

My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.
‐‐ Edward Snowden

My intention is to do more films.
‐‐ Adepero Oduye

My intention is to get more involved in social projects so I can give people a message of hope.
‐‐ Marta

My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.
‐‐ Jill Scott

My intention... isn't to create controversy.
‐‐ Brett Favre

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.
‐‐ Logan Marshall-Green

My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.
‐‐ Karl Ove Knausgaard

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
‐‐ Mary MacLane

My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.
‐‐ Chiara Ferragni

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
‐‐ Sidney Altman

My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.
‐‐ Jon Secada

My intentions are to try to make this state better.
‐‐ Robert J. Bentley

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.
‐‐ Ryan Adams

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.
‐‐ Mayer Hawthorne

My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'
‐‐ Sean Parker

My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films that illustrate all that we are and all our nuance and all our complicated beauty and mess, and when you're telling those stories, you gotta have black actors.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.
‐‐ John Updike

My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original production of 'A Chorus Line' in an easy tie with the first 10 -15 minutes of Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie' that hooked me on the romantic idea that the impossible, difficult life of a struggling actor was for me.
‐‐ John Lloyd Young

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
‐‐ Parker Stevenson

My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and fine metalwork.
‐‐ Cheech Marin

My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
‐‐ J. August Richards

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins