To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.
‐‐ Kate Winslet
To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
‐‐ David Frum
To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
‐‐ Alex Grey
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
‐‐ Stephen Baker
To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
‐‐ Dan Hill
To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.
‐‐ Gary Carter
To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?
‐‐ Tom Stoppard
To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.
‐‐ Enos Slaughter
To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.
‐‐ Mr. T
To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.
‐‐ Vincent Schiavelli
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
‐‐ Robertson Davies
To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.
‐‐ Bryan Adams
To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.
‐‐ Indra Nooyi
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Robinson
To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.
‐‐ Summer Sanders
To be a champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
‐‐ Anatoly Karpov
To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry.
‐‐ Harvey Mackay
To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.
‐‐ Lou Ferrigno
To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
‐‐ Giancarlo Esposito
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
‐‐ Albert Finney
To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas
To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.
‐‐ Rowan Williams
To be a Christian means you become a part of the most significant story the world has ever heard. You don't become part of that without an ongoing questioning of what it means to become part of that.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas
To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
‐‐ Martin Luther
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson
To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.
‐‐ John Leguizamo
To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.
‐‐ Matthew Perry
To be a commentator, you must have a life outside cricket, too. If cricket is all that you know, then you would not be a great commentator.
‐‐ Harsha Bhogle
To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.
‐‐ Bill Rodgers
To be a dean, you have to be a salesman as well as a scholar.
‐‐ John Quelch
To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet
To be a director, you have to be especially patient.
‐‐ Luciano Vincenzoni
To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.
‐‐ Colin Mochrie
To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.
‐‐ Leon Askin
To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.
‐‐ Danielle de Niese
To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.
‐‐ Alber Elbaz
To be a feminist is to be alive.
‐‐ Margaret Cho
To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.
‐‐ Tucker Carlson
To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.
‐‐ Danny Boyle
To be a footballer was just a dream, and I don't believe in dreams. I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.
‐‐ Thierry Henry
To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.
‐‐ Tim Finchem
To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
‐‐ Rafael Nadal
To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.
‐‐ Marjory Stoneman Douglas
To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you - around your physical body and your heart.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh
To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel
To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.
‐‐ Sarah Bernhardt
To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage
To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'
‐‐ Lena Olin
To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.
‐‐ Lane Garrison