All Quotes

There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.
‐‐ Jewel

There are a lot of things about having money that are perceived to be cool but that aren't. Maybe if you're a CEO jerk who likes going coast to coast by himself in a G4, then that's fine. But that's not me. And it never will be.
‐‐ Nolan Bushnell

There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.
‐‐ Marvin Hagler

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.
‐‐ M. Night Shyamalan

There are a lot of things I might be good at, such as competitive figure skating, window washing from ten stories up, and being an open heart surgeon. I might also make an excellent Kamikaze pilot - except for the fact that I don't want to learn how to fly and have no interest in taking my own life on behalf of Japan.
‐‐ Jen Kirkman

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.
‐‐ Beyonce Knowles

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.
‐‐ Brian May

There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.
‐‐ Katy Perry

There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.
‐‐ Timothy Ferriss

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.
‐‐ Kevin Costner

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.
‐‐ Laurence Tribe

There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.
‐‐ Kevin Garnett

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.
‐‐ Michael Dell

There are a lot of things that government doesn't do well. One of things that government does do well is build stuff.
‐‐ Mick Cornett

There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision.
‐‐ Hugh Shelton

There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
‐‐ Karrine Steffans

There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.
‐‐ Rebecca De Mornay

There are a lot of things that immigrants, especially Chinese-Americans, want to share with their children, but there are a lot of things they don't want to share.
‐‐ Anchee Min

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.
‐‐ Robert Carlyle

There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications.
‐‐ Douglas Feith

There are a lot of things that Slack gives you that email doesn't when you think about internal use. Switching to Slack from email for internal communication gives you a lot more transparency.
‐‐ Stewart Butterfield

There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
‐‐ Vanessa Williams

There are a lot of things to get seduced by in America.
‐‐ Lena Olin

There are a lot of things to my game I can still improve, but everyone can.
‐‐ Caroline Wozniacki

There are a lot of things we as individuals can't do much about. We can't solve global warming as individuals, or health care problems, but as individuals, most of us can get our kids reading. We can do that.
‐‐ James Patterson

There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next source of energy. The universe has an unlimited source of energy.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.
‐‐ Matthew McGrory

There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.
‐‐ Phil Gramm

There are a lot of thought leaders who don't want to see their students. We don't want to hire them. If students are allured to come to the school because of famous faculties, and if they never see them, that leaves very bad taste.
‐‐ John Quelch

There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing.
‐‐ George Eads

There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.
‐‐ Victoria Osteen

There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.
‐‐ Jim McMahon

There are a lot of times when people are diplomatic about things, and I'm not that type. I'm not afraid to say exactly what I mean.
‐‐ Solange Knowles

There are a lot of top-notch shows in Canada.
‐‐ David Alpay

There are a lot of undecideds in this country that are hopefully right of center, not left of center.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.
‐‐ Lesley Garrett

There are a lot of us little gypsies out there that need to go and find another place you know. A safer, healthier or just a different venue in order to develop and find ourselves. I am so lucky to live the life that I do.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

There are a lot of us that want to see limitations on refugee resettlement programs.
‐‐ Jeff Duncan

There are a lot of very flamboyant and outlandish people and attention-seekers in L.A., and I think that's what makes L.A. appealing. A lot of people are attracted to come here to do things and make things happen and the city seems to attract larger-than-life characters.
‐‐ Roman Coppola

There are a lot of very good New York novels, but there's no single all-encompassing novel, the way you could look at any number of Dickens books and say we know London as a result of that.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way - so there wasn't really any improvisation on the set when it came to the bulk of the script.
‐‐ Simon Pegg

There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.
‐‐ Sam Abell

There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

There are a lot of women at my gigs. The first show I headlined was a sea of women, which I can't complain about. I'm pleased these 18-year-old girls like my music.
‐‐ Tom Odell

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.
‐‐ Elizabeth Meriwether

There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.
‐‐ Catherine Zeta-Jones

There are a lot of wonderful books out there that aren't marketed properly, and readers who might love them never even know they exist.
‐‐ Julie Kenner

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.
‐‐ David Frum

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.
‐‐ David Amram

There are a lot of writers who just want to do their own thing and avoid the rest of the Marvel Universe. But for me that was one of the things I loved about Marvel: that shared universe. So of course you would run into a mutant in Manhattan. You would run into another hero in Manhattan. For me, I figured why not? Why not have that fun?
‐‐ Ann Nocenti

There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team.
‐‐ Jerry Rice

There are a lot of young swimming fans that are on Instagram, so I try to respond or post things that they like.
‐‐ Katie Ledecky

There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.
‐‐ Tim Heidecker

There are a lot worse things you can do with all your bucks than giving them to even a mediocre mutual fund - such as, for example, giving them to a mediocre hedge fund. If supporting the lifestyle of a mediocre fund manager is your favorite charity, who am I to stop you?
‐‐ Gary Weiss

There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor