All Quotes

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
‐‐ Vince Lombardi

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
‐‐ Cameron Russell

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.
‐‐ Louise Mensch

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.
‐‐ Ernst Zundel

Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one.
‐‐ Jorge Ramos

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
‐‐ Sally Ride

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
‐‐ E. T. A. Hoffmann

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
‐‐ Larry Bird

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
‐‐ Saina Nehwal

Once you are successful, there's a very seductive rhythm at work that keeps you wanting to outdo yourself. By the end of 'Spirit' I felt like I didn't want to get into that trap. It almost makes you cartoon-like.
‐‐ Jewel

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.
‐‐ Brian Mulroney

Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
‐‐ S. Jay Olshansky

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.
‐‐ Alexis Korner

Once you become a celebrity, you are no longer a person, but an archetype.
‐‐ Jennette McCurdy

Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.
‐‐ Aziz Ansari

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.
‐‐ Scott Cohen

Once you become a professional, to get through a ballet like 'Swan Lake' - four acts as the lead, changing character - the perseverance is incredible. It takes a lot to make it through and keep the same energy throughout the entire performance.
‐‐ Misty Copeland

Once you become an actor, it's important to take care of yourself. I live in Santa Monica, where I can mountain bike, hike and go running on the beach. I like a nice sunset jog.
‐‐ Mark Feuerstein

Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.
‐‐ Paul Allen

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
‐‐ Don Johnson

Once you become famous, you can't become unfamous. You can become a failure.
‐‐ Alexander Hanson

Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing.
‐‐ Robert Scoble

Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
‐‐ Chet Atkins

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
‐‐ Billy Connolly

Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.
‐‐ Max Irons

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
‐‐ Laura Ingalls Wilder

Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.
‐‐ Stu Jackson

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
‐‐ James Earl Jones

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.
‐‐ Anthony Hopkins

Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.
‐‐ Jon Krakauer

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel

Once you buy into a television show, there doesn't have to be resolution from week to week. You can develop characters and storylines and react to the audience, so you get more of a serialized version of storytelling where you can go much deeper into each character. It's more like a novel.
‐‐ Jon Favreau

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
‐‐ Rickey Henderson

Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.
‐‐ Jonas Mekas

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
‐‐ Ace Frehley

Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure.
‐‐ Linwood Barclay

Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
‐‐ Malcolm McDowell

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
‐‐ Howard Hughes

Once you create a loyal customer base, it's tough for a competitor to take that away.
‐‐ Joe Mansueto

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.
‐‐ Stephen Stills

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.
‐‐ Alan Sugar