All Quotes

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.
‐‐ Michael Apted

One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
‐‐ Val McDermid

One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact that everyone knows. We can't eliminate the deficit without raising some revenue... They're wusses.
‐‐ Ed Rendell

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.
‐‐ Andrew Fletcher

One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers.
‐‐ Michael Gove

One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.
‐‐ Moby

One of the reasons why I created the podcast called the 'The Call-In' that we do through Array - because as a black artist, every time I sit down with mainstream media, I'm asked about issues of race, identity and culture. No one asked what they ask my white male counterparts, which is: 'Where do you like to put the camera?'
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people do extraordinary things.
‐‐ Jada Pinkett Smith

One of the reasons why I don't leave Northampton is that the people don't treat me like a celebrity. I've been here for years; I'm just that bloke with long hair.
‐‐ Alan Moore

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.
‐‐ Tibor Fischer

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.
‐‐ Robert Fisk

One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct, but sometimes that is not reliable. When you're not feeling it, what do you do? So, going to grad school was about getting the tools to just use my instrument to the best of my ability.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.
‐‐ Afrojack

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.
‐‐ Steven Seagal

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
‐‐ Henry Miller

One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News' ratings go up is because people who don't normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don't watch network news or fight over the people who do?
‐‐ Roone Arledge

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.
‐‐ Scott Adams

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.
‐‐ Harsha Bhogle

One of the reasons you take a role is because it's something you always wanted to do, from going to the movies as a kid. I always wanted to do a 1950s movie, for example. And I got a chance to be in 'Peggy Sue Got Married.' I would have taken only one line of dialogue to be in that.
‐‐ Catherine Hicks

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.
‐‐ Joe Slovo

One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.
‐‐ Phil Hartman

One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.
‐‐ Geoffrey West

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
‐‐ J. C. Watts

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
‐‐ Samuel Wilson

One of the responsibilities of Congress is the power of the purse, but there is also oversight. In order to have proper oversight, you have to have agency administrators, directors, and secretaries of those agencies speak frankly and about the facts.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
‐‐ Sting

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
‐‐ Billy Collins

One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.
‐‐ Susan Estrich

One of the roles I hold really close to my heart is a small 'under-five' role I did on 'The Young and the Restless.' I think I did about four episodes and it meant so much to me, simply because it was my mom's all-time favorite soap.
‐‐ Emayatzy Corinealdi

One of the roles of a U.S. ambassador - anywhere in the world - is to promote bilateral trade and investment.
‐‐ James Costos

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

One of the rookie mistakes first-time entrepreneurs often make is to be too guarded about their idea - in fact, many will actually spend their first $25,000 on patent lawyers without ever fully vetting their product.
‐‐ Scott Weiss

One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
‐‐ Bee Wilson

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.
‐‐ Joan Collins

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.
‐‐ David Brin

One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.
‐‐ Alice Oswald

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.
‐‐ Faye Wattleton

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.
‐‐ David Simon

One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.
‐‐ John Mackey

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.
‐‐ Margaret Heffernan

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll

One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
‐‐ Daniel Everett

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.
‐‐ Frank Langella

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
‐‐ Man Ray

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
‐‐ David Duchovny

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
‐‐ Bernard Baruch

One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden