When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.
‐‐ Beji Caid Essebsi
When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.
‐‐ Guy Forget
When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.
‐‐ Lil' Kim
When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.
‐‐ Gene Simmons
When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have a plot, really, what shall you rely on? Just language. And sometimes I am so afraid of writing the wrong thing, I just sit and wait for the right thing to come.
‐‐ Per Petterson
When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
‐‐ Zac Brown
When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
‐‐ Barbara Taylor Bradford
When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
‐‐ Magic Johnson
When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.
‐‐ Philippe Petit
When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.
‐‐ Marion Cotillard
When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
‐‐ Roger Zelazny
When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.
‐‐ Cecilia Bartoli
When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.
‐‐ David Amram
When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.
‐‐ Misha Collins
When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.
‐‐ Lakshmi Pratury
When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.
‐‐ Claudia Rankine
When you are alone, you need to take many decisions, and you can make mistakes.
‐‐ Christian Cota
When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into hunger.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson
When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
‐‐ Ram Dass
When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job.
‐‐ Andrew Lincoln
When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.
‐‐ David Morrissey
When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie
When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.
‐‐ Charles Fleischer
When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.
‐‐ Johnny Weir
When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are.
‐‐ Thomas Piketty
When you are around 60, there are certain things that are completely terrifying. One of them is that you have made the wrong choices in life, and now it's too late to do anything about them.
‐‐ Henning Mankell
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.
‐‐ Jacques Pepin
When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
‐‐ Natalia Vodianova
When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno
When you are authentic, you create a certain energy... people want to be around you because you are unique.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell
When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
‐‐ Christy Turlington
When you are born into a family like mine, you don't really know anything else. But you quickly realise that it's more about other people and how they are dealing with it. Some can be hugely in awe or uncomfortable, but to you, your parents are just your parents.
‐‐ Jade Jagger
When you are born rich, you have all these options. You can pursue a career path that you find interesting; there's no need or pressure to start working to get funds just for survival, which is something a lot of people have to struggle with.
‐‐ Jamie Johnson
When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was.
‐‐ John le Carre
When you are buying companies, everyone in the company feels very good. Their chests are puffed out. At Blackstone, I used to tell people that there is nothing more fun than buying a company with somebody else's money. The business is growing, which creates more opportunity for your employees.
‐‐ Henry Silverman
When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll
When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.
‐‐ Frank Shorter
When you are cast for a role, it's because of everything that makes you who you are in that moment in time. No one else has that. That's a unique, powerful thing to hold.
‐‐ Christian Camargo
When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne
When you are coming out, you say it's for you. But when everybody says it's not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me.
‐‐ Anne Heche
When you are committed to living a life in service to the most high, the choices to be great, to serve and be served, to love and be loved are apparent.
‐‐ Debbie Ford
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
‐‐ Lao Tzu
When you are convinced your cause is just, you fight for it.
‐‐ Rigoberta Menchu
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
‐‐ Albert Einstein
When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
‐‐ Kate Adie
When you are culture, you're forever young, like Snoop. When you're on that level, it's just contributing to the gangsta.
‐‐ D.R.A.M.
When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.
‐‐ Austin O'Malley