All Quotes

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
‐‐ Rick Perry

What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.
‐‐ Pinetop Perkins

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.
‐‐ Tupac Shakur

What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

What I learned is that how we present ourselves to the world is really how we get treated. So if you want to be treated really well in a restaurant, you really have to dress up. You cannot just show up.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
‐‐ Mario Andretti

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.
‐‐ Susan Rice

What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.
‐‐ Renny Harlin

What I learned on 'Homicide' was that each show deserves its own look.
‐‐ Clark Johnson

What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes.
‐‐ Greg Lake

What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.
‐‐ Matthew Vaughn

What I learned was that we Millennials possess one factor that supposedly sets us apart from those who came before us. Is it incredibly clear skin, since most of us took Accutane at some point? No. The recurring description of our generation is 'entitled.'
‐‐ Paul Downs Colaizzo

What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention.
‐‐ Merrie Spaeth

What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.
‐‐ Ed Lee

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.
‐‐ Allegra Versace

What I like about Americans is if it's good music, that's the only thing that matters.
‐‐ Chet Faker

What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents; we are a diverse firm in terms of political views. But what we do is we sit down and we try to solve the problems.
‐‐ Stephen Pagliuca

What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

What I like about Broadway is that you are still entertaining. You're standing in front of an audience every night and the critics are not friends at all - and that's good for me as an entertainer because I want to grow. It also gives me the structure of remaining in one city so I can get creative in different ways.
‐‐ Ricky Martin

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
‐‐ Joseph Brodsky

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.
‐‐ Bruno Mars

What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.
‐‐ Charlie Cox

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.
‐‐ Mia Wasikowska

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
‐‐ Bruce Eric Kaplan

What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
‐‐ Naomi Campbell

What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players - the way they have to make a play out of nothing.
‐‐ George Vecsey

What I like about Kickstarter is it helps games that people want to play still get made, even if you don't pump $20 million dollars into it to try and meet all the stupid bells and whistles that publishers feel must be in games nowadays.
‐‐ Chris Avellone

What I like about modelling is that it has given me that opportunity to travel and experience different cultures, work with creative people, and now it's given me a voice, and with that voice hopefully I can do good things with it.
‐‐ Miranda Kerr

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
‐‐ Karl Lagerfeld

What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just give you a 'What's up?' and that's it.
‐‐ Chaske Spencer

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.
‐‐ Tracy Kidder

What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
‐‐ Samantha Shannon

What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!
‐‐ Joe Strummer

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
‐‐ Bono

What I like about Rebel's style of comedy is she never plays the victim... she's never been fazed by her shape; it's just the way it is. She would mock her appearance whatever she looked like.
‐‐ Kate Jenkinson

What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.
‐‐ Marilyn Hacker

What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.
‐‐ James Lovelock

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.
‐‐ Patti Page

What I like about South Florida is there's a good quality of life here; the cost of living is much lower than Silicon Valley.
‐‐ Rony Abovitz

What I like about the American woman is she usually has a lot of dynamism. In the U.S., women have a tendency to go forward, to be more exaggerated than in Europe. Many times the rough ideas come from the States, then they are refined in Europe. The American women and the French women are still the best-dressed.
‐‐ Francoise Gilot

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.
‐‐ Steven Wright

What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun.
‐‐ Gerard Way

What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven't seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there's some great battle sequences. It's my favorite book. Carlisle is holding on to that humanity. He doesn't want to be a vampire.
‐‐ Peter Facinelli

What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.
‐‐ Theo James

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.
‐‐ Goenawan Mohamad

What I like about writing a stand alone novel is you're starting with a fresh world and fresh characters. Part of what I love about writing is that journey of discovery where it's all new to me as well.
‐‐ Michael Koryta

What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.
‐‐ Edie Campbell