Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.
‐‐ Jerry Yang
Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.
‐‐ Kara Walker
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
‐‐ Archibald MacLeish
Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
‐‐ Leon Kass
Once you put something like 'The A-Team' on the map, it does become part of the DNA of television. People grab little pieces of it. I certainly grabbed little pieces of other people's shows when I was creating my shows.
‐‐ Stephen J. Cannell
Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.
‐‐ Michael O'Donoghue
Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
‐‐ Magnus Carlsen
Once you're a felon you're a target.
‐‐ Tommy Chong
Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.
‐‐ Pete Carroll
Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
‐‐ Taraji P. Henson
Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.
‐‐ Smokey Robinson
Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.
‐‐ Smokey Robinson
Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails.
‐‐ James MacArthur
Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.
‐‐ Nicole Sullivan
Once you're dead, your worries are over.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke
Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.
‐‐ Gus Van Sant
Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.
‐‐ Gail Collins
Once you're done with the film, it's almost like empty nest syndrome: your kid has moved out of the house.
‐‐ Byron Howard
Once you're famous you can't go back.
‐‐ Matthew Morrison
Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
‐‐ Janis Ian
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
‐‐ Evelyn Glennie
Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
‐‐ Hannibal Buress
Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
‐‐ E. L. James
Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.
‐‐ Joe Sakic
Once you're in the military, she means a lot more to you than just a grandmother. She is the queen. And then you suddenly, it's like start realizing, you know, wow, this is quite a big deal. And then you get goose bumps and then the rest of it.
‐‐ Prince Harry
Once you're in the presence of people who have put their lives actively on the line, repeatedly, you're never allowed to complain again. And I do, and we all do. But now I look at things a little differently.
‐‐ Ben Foster
Once you're involved in a business, it's part of what you do. It's the way you are.
‐‐ Ben Elliot
Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it.
‐‐ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel
Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your own well-being, too.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra
Once you're not No. 1, it doesn't matter where you are.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina
Once you're on the field, you're playing. You're not worried about anything other than doing your job to help your team.
‐‐ Colin Kaepernick
Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras.
‐‐ Philippe Falardeau
Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.
‐‐ Ian St. John
Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.
‐‐ Mia Wasikowska
Once you're retired and are no longer counting on earned income to live on and supplement your nest egg, you're done with disability insurance. At that point, though, the need for long-term care insurance - which protects you from spending that nest egg too fast - takes over.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky
Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
‐‐ Talib Kweli
Once you're sort of pigeonholed into something, it's quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a gay character again, but it would definitely have to be the right role.
‐‐ Sarah Shahi
Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.
‐‐ Roberta Flack
Once you reach a certain age, you find yourself visiting hospitals a lot.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi
Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.
‐‐ David Benioff
Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.
‐‐ Conor Oberst
Once you realize that everything happens for a reason, attitudes towards matters such as illnesses, or lawsuits, for example, change.
‐‐ Shari Arison
Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.
‐‐ Paul Anka
Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.
‐‐ Edward Steichen
Once you really get into a song, other than just listening to it, it forces you to go 'oh, they did this. I never would have thought of doing that,' when you deconstruct it. It's something you really can't do sometimes when you're just listening to a song. You have to really get into it.
‐‐ Greg Laswell
Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
‐‐ C. Thomas Howell