All Quotes

To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.
‐‐ Michael Caine

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
‐‐ James A. Baldwin

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

To be a nutritionist in France, you must be a doctor, seven years studies, and then three more years in nutrition.
‐‐ Pierre Dukan

To be a parent, you must be authoritarian. If the Zambians want to succeed, they must learn to work hard, and they should not expect to be treated with kid gloves.
‐‐ Michael Sata

To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited... This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat.
‐‐ Michael Finley

To be a part of Laika's universe is an opportunity not to be passed up.
‐‐ Isaac Hempstead Wright

To be a part of something like 'Tron,' good God! It doesn't matter how big or small your role is, you're like, 'Yeah, I was in 'Tron.'
‐‐ Serinda Swan

To be a part of your biggest days - you know, your child being conceived or born, or you walking down the aisle - there's really nothing sweeter. That's the truth.
‐‐ Robin Thicke

To be a philanthropist, you don't have to be Nelson Mandela. You just have to look around you and ask, 'What little bit can I do? Whose life can I touch?'
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
‐‐ David Hume

To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it explained to you at some sort of 'finishing school' where you could actually learn the laws of propriety and the skills of appearing well-adapted, easygoing and attractively trouble free. But where do you learn these things? I don't know.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
‐‐ Robert Frost

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
‐‐ Robert Graves

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.
‐‐ Alice Oswald

To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.
‐‐ Eileen Myles

To be a police officer in New York requires so much more than just we, as a citizen, need to walk around. Your job is to put yourself in this place where a horrible event has happened and try to figure it out. That's what you do, day in and day out. You have to have a certain distance to it. You can't let yourself go too far into it.
‐‐ Bill Camp

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
‐‐ Timothy Radcliffe

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
‐‐ Catharine MacKinnon

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.
‐‐ Guy Forget

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.
‐‐ Jill Scott

To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving.
‐‐ Allan McNish

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
‐‐ Jane Fonda

To be a series regular for two seasons taught me so much about what it takes to be on a TV schedule and work those kind of hours and just work in front of a camera in general.
‐‐ Megan Hilty

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.
‐‐ Gio Gonzalez

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.
‐‐ Rupert Everett

To be a Southern Ground artist, you have to be a lifer. It's not about winning a karaoke contest or a television show to become famous. It's about really paying your dues. It's people I'm fans of and want to help in the business.
‐‐ Zac Brown

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
‐‐ Hedy Lamarr

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
‐‐ J. William Fulbright

To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.
‐‐ Dan Savage

To be a striker you need to be in good shape.
‐‐ Pele

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway

To be a successful Viner, you have to find your own style and be consistent. That will help you stand out from the rest.
‐‐ Lele Pons

To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.
‐‐ Narada Michael Walden

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.
‐‐ Rene Magritte

To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.
‐‐ Chris Parnell

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
‐‐ Chris Evert

To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.
‐‐ Rory McIlroy

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.
‐‐ Brad Paisley

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.
‐‐ Don Ellis

To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite wrestler has the one move that he always does to finish his opponent off, right? Like when he climbs on the rope, and he always jumps off the top rope and finishes off his opponent - that's what a comic has.
‐‐ J. B. Smoove

To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
‐‐ Kara Walker

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.
‐‐ Peter Singer

To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.
‐‐ Yasmine Al Masri

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
‐‐ Nate Silver

To be a white kid into hip-hop meant you'd sought it out and you practiced the art. Which meant dedication and diligence, as well as removing yourself at least occasionally from your own comfort zone and circumstances, and from people who looked like you.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.
‐‐ Marcus Allen

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
‐‐ Milan Kundera