All Quotes

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.
‐‐ Maxine Hong Kingston

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

To me, such functions are like supermarket openings.
‐‐ Norton Simon

To me, tattoos are a way of people being able to express themselves and have other people look at them and get a little insight into who they are, without ever even saying a word to them.
‐‐ Colin Kaepernick

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
‐‐ Mike Krzyzewski

To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.
‐‐ Beth Simone Noveck

To me, terrorists should not be able to hide behind their passports and their citizenship, and that includes U.S. citizens, whether they are overseas or whether they are here in the United States. What we need to do is to apply the appropriate tool and the appropriate response.
‐‐ John O. Brennan

To me, that aspect of life that most touches the everyday and celebrations is food.
‐‐ Gil Marks

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.
‐‐ Kim Weston

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.
‐‐ Carol Moseley Braun

To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach.
‐‐ Bill Sienkiewicz

To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success.
‐‐ James Langevin

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.
‐‐ Noah Taylor

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.
‐‐ Joshua Michael Stern

To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.
‐‐ Shane West

To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.
‐‐ Ann Rutherford

To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.
‐‐ Billy Campbell

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
‐‐ Maya Lin

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.
‐‐ Junichiro Koizumi

To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.
‐‐ Eugene Jarvis

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.
‐‐ Dorothea Dix

To me, the best projects are the ones where you have a pretty good idea of what the spine of it's gonna be, but then all sorts of things happen that you could've never predicted, and those are the magic moments of the films.
‐‐ Marshall Curry

To me 'The Big Easy' is shorthand for owning big stocks that are easy for wary investors to buy into. These stocks tend to outperform during the back half of bull markets.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others and that was as big as when we did motion control on Star Wars. But I don't see another big thing coming.
‐‐ Dennis Muren

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

To me, the biggest notes and the longest notes are the easiest notes.
‐‐ Jennifer Hudson

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.
‐‐ Robert Cailliau

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
‐‐ Alice Walker

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.
‐‐ Mick Fleetwood

To me, the bones of 'Smokin' Aces' is in the Coen brothers. 'Barton Fink' and 'Raising Arizona.' Those two movies, if you look at them, that's where a lot of that comes from.
‐‐ Joe Carnahan

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.
‐‐ Dave Haywood

To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a bit more, you are okay.
‐‐ Sunny Deol

To me, the burden of proof isn't on people looking for ways to improve our schools; it's on people who want to keep things the same. Our current system isn't working, and too many kids are being left behind.
‐‐ Michael Bennet

To me, the concept of distance is not important. Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.
‐‐ Gerard Way

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
‐‐ Dan O'Brien

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
‐‐ Vincent D'Onofrio

To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.
‐‐ Theo James

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.
‐‐ Ludivine Sagnier

To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.
‐‐ Steven Soderbergh

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.
‐‐ Philip Johnson

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
‐‐ Eckhart Tolle

To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach

To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.
‐‐ Tom Selleck

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
‐‐ Bruce Lee

To me, the fact that the Mexican came North in search of a better life is a tremendous epic that hasn't been written. It's an odyssey that we know nothing about. And they came with a dream for a better life.
‐‐ Rudolfo Anaya

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
‐‐ Richard Lamm

To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.
‐‐ Leon Max

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
‐‐ Eddie Money

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.
‐‐ Louis C. K.