All Quotes

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
‐‐ Ornette Coleman

Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
‐‐ Edmund White

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
‐‐ Sam Wyly

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.
‐‐ Smokey Robinson

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.
‐‐ Edmund White

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
‐‐ Serge Lang

Originally in the United States, there were no laws regulating behavioral advertising. As a result, like in the Philippines, government has relied on industry self-regulation.
‐‐ Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie.
‐‐ Ryan Murphy

Originally, technology was pretty clearly on the side of introversion. It allowed introverts to connect with people, to express their ideas in a less stimulating way: you're sitting alone behind a computer. But I'm starting to think that the pressure to self-present constantly online is becoming so extreme.
‐‐ Susan Cain

Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on physicists to prove there must be a law forbidding time travel.
‐‐ Michio Kaku

Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world.
‐‐ Guy Laliberte

Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.
‐‐ Arthur Hiller

Originally, the main purpose of the convention was to determine who the party would have as the presidential nominee and the vice-presidential nominee.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
‐‐ Alan Rickman

Originally they wanted it to be bigger, but I pleaded and pleaded and pleaded to have the smallest tonsure that they could get away with. A tonsure that could still be seen, but, I worried about my social life!
‐‐ Derek Jacobi

Originally they wanted me to be Buster but I really like the Tobias part.
‐‐ David Cross

Originally when I went off to work on 'The Lord of The Rings' I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn't really approach it like that. To get Gollum's voice I had to play the character.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.
‐‐ Kate Bush

Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.
‐‐ Norman Lear

Orlando is such a kind person. He's so generous and one of us, 'us' meaning a theater person. What a lot of people don't know about him is that, before 'Lord of the Rings,' he went to theater school like a lot of us. He is just really sweet and hard working.
‐‐ Condola Rashad

Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to.
‐‐ Shemar Moore

Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.
‐‐ Diane Kruger

Ornette Coleman is a real musician. He takes all of the things he's thinking about in the world - which is a whole universe upon universe - and translates this into music.
‐‐ Patti Smith

'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.
‐‐ Tatiana Maslany

'Orphan Black' tends to, for their auditions, shroud it in secrecy and change names.
‐‐ Ari Millen

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
‐‐ April Winchell

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.
‐‐ Lyle Kessler

Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.
‐‐ Scott Howell

Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
‐‐ Ted Rall

Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.
‐‐ Manny Farber

Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan

Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
‐‐ Eartha Kitt

Orthodox chanting is non-emotional; it's very monotone.
‐‐ Troy Polamalu

Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their dominant teaching about salvation, offered only through Christ, and, in particular, through the church they claimed to represent.
‐‐ Elaine Pagels

Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.
‐‐ Troy Polamalu

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
‐‐ Robert Harris

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
‐‐ John Pilger

Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.
‐‐ George Woodcock

Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
‐‐ Ramez Naam

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
‐‐ Nat Friedman

Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly trained men and helicopters.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.
‐‐ Brent Scowcroft

Osama bin Laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that probably cost almost nothing.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.
‐‐ Cofer Black

Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.
‐‐ Jurgen Habermas