All Quotes

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
‐‐ Marvin Olasky

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'
‐‐ Michael Bloomberg

On Sept. 20, 2011, a year after I spoke with Rabanni, a couple of Taliban emissaries arrived at his Kabul fortress with a gift for his 71st birthday. It turned out not to be the truce offering they had claimed they were bringing: one of the Talibs had a bomb hidden in his turban.
‐‐ Terry Glavin

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
‐‐ George W. Bush

On September 11, 2001, Russia's then-president, Vladimir Putin, called U.S. President George W. Bush - making Putin the first international leader to speak with Bush after the attacks.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to put us on offense against terrorists.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
‐‐ Otto Schily

On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers.
‐‐ Cliff Stearns

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

On September twentieth every year, I got to choose my menu - meatloaf, corn niblets, and rice were followed by candles on chocolate cake with vanilla icing and a scoop of Brock-Hall ice cream.
‐‐ Donald Hall

On set, I have a lot of coffee... so I try to chug water before going for that next cup.
‐‐ Jessica Stroup

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
‐‐ Gary Oldman

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
‐‐ Naomi Watts

On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments.
‐‐ Spike Jonze

On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay.
‐‐ Gennifer Flowers

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.
‐‐ Pierre Salinger

On shooting days, I have all my accessories, and I style the final look.
‐‐ Ashley Madekwe

On 'Silver Linings Playbook,' David O. Russell is the master at getting his actors to give him something that he doesn't expect. He loves to keep things spontaneous. He talks to the actors throughout a take because, in real life, you don't know what the next person is going to say; you don't know when you're going to get interrupted.
‐‐ Julia Stiles

On 'Sin Nombre,' Adriano Goldman and I improvised a lot of things on-site. We were working with untrained actors, and you can't really block a scene in a traditional way.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
‐‐ Eddie Redmayne

On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.
‐‐ Uzo Aduba

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.
‐‐ Stephen Lang

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.
‐‐ Marc Maron

On some level, every story draws something from life experiences. Most of the time, it's just a matter of me pulling bits and pieces of my own past to help give characters or settings a little more life.
‐‐ Cullen Bunn

On some level, I think everyone felt like a dork in high school.
‐‐ Grant Show

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
‐‐ Gabrielle Zevin

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.
‐‐ David Hyde Pierce

On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.
‐‐ Edwidge Danticat

On some level, there's a limit to what the government really worries about when it comes to a guy like Ai Weiwei, who's talking to a limited audience of people. He's talking to people who more or less already agree with him.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

On some level, you could say you wouldn't have 'In Style Magazine' at all had Anna Wintour not decided to put celebrities on the cover of 'Vogue' from her earliest years as Editor in Chief.
‐‐ R. J. Cutler

On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.
‐‐ Edwidge Danticat

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‐‐ Ronald Ross

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.
‐‐ Stone Gossard

On some sets, if a helicopter goes by, what would normally happen is that somebody would go, 'There's a helicopter. Stop.' I'd never stop for a helicopter. I am always trying to make sure that the machine is in service to the actors.
‐‐ Jill Soloway

On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman

On 'Southland,' when a helicopter joins our scene, we don't skip a beat. The actors talk louder because that's what cops do in real life.
‐‐ Shawn Hatosy

On stage and in person, I think I am nice, thoughtful, and empathetic. But for some reason when I'm online, I become super aggressive and unhinged. I should probably get off of Twitter and see a therapist.
‐‐ Joe Mande

On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world.
‐‐ David Gest

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

On stage, I am in the dark.
‐‐ Maria Callas

On stage, I find anger at the unfairness of the world easily.
‐‐ Jessica Raine

On stage I have to be comfortable because I play guitar so I can't wear too much jewellery, it knocks against the guitar and makes loud noises. I had this big gold eagle necklace which I love but I kept whacking myself in the face with it so had to stop wearing it. I wear things that I can sweat in, basically... it gets really hot on stage.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.
‐‐ Rob Delaney

On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.
‐‐ Alice Cooper