When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do.
‐‐ Robert Redford
When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.
‐‐ Matt Lauer
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
‐‐ Irvine Welsh
When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.
‐‐ Steve Erickson
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.
‐‐ Mary Karr
When people switch to car-sharing from car ownership, they reduce their vehicle miles traveled by 44 percent, and thus their greenhouse gas emissions go down by, like, 40 percent.
‐‐ Jessica Scorpio
When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
‐‐ Edgardo Osorio
When people take off the headset, they immediately have a creative idea about what they can make in virtual reality, and a lot of them immediately want to get involved.
‐‐ Brendan Iribe
When people take themselves really seriously, I find it silly and amusing.
‐‐ Sarah Steele
When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for.
‐‐ Sarah Rees Brennan
When people talk about conservative government, that's it in a nutshell. We're using taxpayers' money like we would use our own. We're holding in the reins during good times so we're prepared during bad times.
‐‐ Bill Haslam
When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.
‐‐ Mario Balotelli
When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't.'
‐‐ Kelly Clarkson
When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't call equity bugs 'cockroaches.' Do you understand? There is already a negative connotation with the expression of 'gold bug.'
‐‐ Marc Faber
When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.
‐‐ Paul Johnson
When people talk about someone you have preconceived judgments.
‐‐ Tila Tequila
When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
‐‐ Mahendra Singh Dhoni
When people talk about televisual phenomena such as 'Big Brother,' I haven't a clue what they're talking about. Having said that, if I'm staying in a hotel and there's a television in there, I'll go straight to it and watch it as if it's some incredible new invention.
‐‐ Jodhi May
When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.
‐‐ Charlie Watts
When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid
When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
‐‐ Sam Yagan
When people talk about their God, it is difficult to know what they actually mean, and when people talk about their atheism, it is usually incomprehensible also.
‐‐ Michael Leunig
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway
When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
‐‐ John Adams
When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.
‐‐ Steven Pinker
When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.
‐‐ Jean-Claude Duvalier
When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
‐‐ Al Franken
When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.
‐‐ John Avlon
When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
‐‐ Takeshi Kitano
When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.
‐‐ Sidney Sheldon
When people tell me that I'm a hothead, I have one response, 'You got a problem with that?'
‐‐ Steve Schirripa
When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.
‐‐ Amy Sedaris
When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
‐‐ Hannah Simone
When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.
‐‐ Cary Grant
When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.
‐‐ Broderick Crawford
When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.
‐‐ Helen Fisher
When people tell you Web content is better than television content, they probably don't mean that, they probably enjoy the format of the Web better than the format of TV.
‐‐ Ricky Van Veen
When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.
‐‐ Bill Hader
When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.
‐‐ Nile Rodgers
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
‐‐ Marissa Mayer
When people think about Michigan, they usually think about cars.
‐‐ Sander Levin
When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates
When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.'
‐‐ John Piper
When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
‐‐ Ted Naifeh
When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.
‐‐ Rod Taylor
When people think of biblical movies, they imagine sweeping epics like 'The Ten Commandments.' But 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' is essentially a documentary about Jesus. It made me aware of how real life and personal experience can create more breathtaking, sensitive cinema than more sophisticated techniques.
‐‐ Derek Cianfrance
When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen.
‐‐ Philip Treacy
When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down and yelling at pitchers. But when I took the spikes off after the game, I was a nice guy when I went home.
‐‐ Pete Rose
When people think of Mozilla, they generally think of the browser, but Mozilla is really much more than that. Mozilla is of interest to people who want an end-user application like our browser that's not tied directly into the Windows platform.
‐‐ Mitchell Baker