All Quotes

One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11.
‐‐ Mike Johanns

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.
‐‐ Andres Serrano

One of the things that I am learning is that each generation will have its own negotiations with identity. And one generation can not necessarily help the other generation with it.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

One of the things that I'd like to get back to that I did as a younger actor was to work on, you know, a rep season for a summer where you did two or three Shakespeares, and you'd do a couple of either new plays or classic plays, and you did a different one almost every night.
‐‐ Thomas Gibson

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.
‐‐ Herman Cain

One of the things that I do that I've found from being newly married is that my husband and I, we go in the bathroom and brush our teeth together. And that's when we talk about what's going on in the day, so we get to bond that way.
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd

One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you're constantly surprised. You never know what's going to happen, and it's certainly like that making movies; every once in a while, one will come along that transcends all of your expectations.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

One of the things that I first remember wanting to be was a 'geolisty' - that was the best I could say when I was a kid. That was right after I stopped wanting to be a fireman or a truck driver. Because my dad is a paleontologist who worked with the Smithsonian, I got to see the bones up close and the exhibits behind the scenes there.
‐‐ Craig Mello

One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.
‐‐ Bill Williams

One of the things that I love about crime novels is that you can turn the volume all the way up. If I can make somebody blow their subway stop, I win.
‐‐ Marcus Sakey

One of the things that I love about voiceover is that it's a situation where - because you're not encumbered by being seen - it's liberating. You're able to make broad choices that you would never make if you were on camera.
‐‐ Mark Hamill

One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
‐‐ Branford Marsalis

One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

One of the things that I'm realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more work with your facial muscles and your mouth. You have to kind of exaggerate your pronunciation a little bit more, whereas with live action, you can get away with mumbling sometimes.
‐‐ Mark Valley

One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.
‐‐ Gary Vaynerchuk

One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport, there's just an understanding that we're all good people, let's be nice to each other. And Kiwis have that. I find the Kiwis have that.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of cricket, that involvement of myself - mind, body and spirit - to delivering that one specific process, which is to execute a cricket shot. It is a beautiful feeling; it is very hard to replicate.
‐‐ Matthew Hayden

One of the things that I realize is that if you look at big business, I mean, they - and what they fund and what they do, they don't really - they don't fund the small non-profit community-based organizations that really are out there on the front lines helping people. They fund the big philanthropies. They're safe.
‐‐ Rick Santorum

One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
‐‐ Maggie Stiefvater

One of the things that I share with Bryan Becket is this hole in my childhood memory. There's about five years of my life that's virtually gone. I've thought about it a lot, and I've come to the conclusion that it might be for my own protection that those memories are gone, and maybe I don't want to dredge up those things.
‐‐ Tim Daly

One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

One of the things that I think I do well as a CEO is that I'm present. When I'm with my employees, I'm there in the moment.
‐‐ Dick Costolo

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.
‐‐ Suzy Bogguss

One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards

One of the things that I thought really worked was that you have 'Smallville' on television and 'Superman Returns' come out in the theater, and it was fine. Nobody freaked out; nobody thought they were competing.
‐‐ Geoff Johns

One of the things that I try to do when I have a tough time with anything - whatever it may be - is just look at someone else's situation. Here in Staten Island, look, I have people that have children that haven't been back in their home for 18 months after Sandy. They lost every worldly possession.
‐‐ Michael Grimm

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.
‐‐ Kevin Rose

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.
‐‐ Maurice Strong

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?
‐‐ Seth Lloyd

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.
‐‐ Stephen Moyer

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.
‐‐ Patrick Stewart

One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.
‐‐ Guy Oseary

One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.
‐‐ Julia London

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
‐‐ Bill Nighy

One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.
‐‐ Jonah Peretti

One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.
‐‐ Gus Van Sant

One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.
‐‐ Jon Postel

One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the design team have worked together for 15-plus years, and there's a wonderful thing about learning as a group. A fundamental part of that is making mistakes together.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

One of the things that is very important to me is how I feel about my team. And not just what their jobs are but what they mean to one another.
‐‐ Anne Sweeney

One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.
‐‐ Ricardo Semler

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.
‐‐ Elmer Davis

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.
‐‐ Louis Navellier

One of the things that made 'American Pie' great was also the sexiness of it.
‐‐ Hayden Schlossberg

One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to me to do anything other than put the patient at the center. I developed a clinical system at a time when the health care world had pretty much only billing and lab systems available.
‐‐ Judith Faulkner

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.
‐‐ Lincoln Ellsworth

One of the things that made me try writing novels was I could take time off to be with the kids. That's the practical side of what I love about the writing life.
‐‐ Simon Toyne

One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different from the others, is that even though they play around with all the classic tropes of art-damaged angst-noise perv-rock, they exude a totally cheery and boyish enthusiasm onstage, goofing around with their keyboards and beatboxes.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

One of the things that make our version that much more heartbreaking is that even though I am playing a 24-year-old I look much younger. I look like a child.
‐‐ Rooney Mara

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.
‐‐ Glenn Howerton

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

One of the things that makes me most happy about music is that I can look at a picture and see Da Brat, Missy, Lil Kim, Left Eye, and I know Aaliyah is a singer, but to see them all in one photo together hugging and laughing and really having genuine love for each other... I want to feel that with my hip hop sisters.
‐‐ Lil Mama

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.
‐‐ Jon Kyl

One of the things that makes the Bourne movies so exciting, I think, is you do get to go on a journey. Generally, through the franchise, that journey is in Europe.
‐‐ Paul Greengrass

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.
‐‐ David Foster Wallace

One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
‐‐ Nancy A. Collins

One of the things that may get lost among all the hubbub when a company is 'going public' is that the business can now be owned, in part, by its greatest fans.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.
‐‐ Alicia Silverstone

One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.
‐‐ Ed Rendell

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private.
‐‐ Graham Swift

One of the things that pushed me over the edge was that people on the Left were calling me names. How many kicks in the teeth do you have to endure.
‐‐ Cindy Sheehan

One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
‐‐ Carol Berg

One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.
‐‐ Robert K. Massie

One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.
‐‐ Jonah Goldberg

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.
‐‐ Nicholas D. Kristof

One of the things that's always amazed me about people who attack me, saying I'm opposed to renewable energy, is I'm pretty sure I'm the only Republican who had an energy bill vetoed by a Republican governor.
‐‐ Cory Gardner

One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.
‐‐ Mitch Landrieu

One of the things that's been crazy for us has been the speed at which news can break on Digg, because it's powered by a mass of humans versus a machine that has to go out and crawl and find the information and then determine its relevance mathematically.
‐‐ Kevin Rose

One of the things that's been nice about my career is that I've been able to do so many different things, and variety keeps your creative soul fulfilled. I'm constantly looking to find new things to do. It's just project to project for me. You never know where the next thing's going to come from.
‐‐ Drew Goddard

One of the things that's been really fun about my run on 'Swamp Thing' is putting him in all kinds of different locations around the world, and seeing how his exterior foliage changes based on his location.
‐‐ Charles Soule

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
‐‐ Branford Marsalis

One of the things that's difficult for people to understand is when you join the military, you don't sign up as an endorsement of any particular policy of the moment.
‐‐ Phil Klay

One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.
‐‐ Lorenzo di Bonaventura

One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
‐‐ Edith Widder

One of the things that's fun about TV is it grows, and you set goals and aim towards stuff, and one of the writers has an idea, and you say, 'Ooh, that's so much cooler. Let's do that instead.' It's so much more fluid and organic that way, and that's the most fun part about it.
‐‐ Jed Whedon

One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
‐‐ Bebe Neuwirth

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.
‐‐ Sarah Jessica Parker

One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.
‐‐ Carlton Cuse

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
‐‐ Gabe Newell

One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.
‐‐ Bryan Fuller

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.
‐‐ Lisa Loeb

One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
‐‐ Gabe Newell

One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

One of the things that's making ArcGIS come alive is apps. Apps are opening up the ArcGIS platform, making it available to everybody in your organization as well as to the public.
‐‐ Jack Dangermond

One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.
‐‐ Peter Hobson

One of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who's been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus.
‐‐ David Quammen

One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It's almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again.
‐‐ Lisa See

One of the things that's really important in 'Queen of the Night' is how people communicate with their clothes.
‐‐ Alexander Chee

One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things that seems absolutely clear to me about werewolves - with their canine makeup - is that they would be dogs, as it were.
‐‐ Glen Duncan

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.'
‐‐ Geoffrey Canada

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.
‐‐ Ethan Hawke

One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area.
‐‐ Lee Scott