Top 100 A Lot Of Quotes
#1. I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
George Best
#2. I danced in a Lifetime film. We shot in Canada and I got to work with a lot of the dancers who do So You Think You Can Dance, Canada.
Joan Chen
#3. A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.
Steve Vai
#4. There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.
Peter Steele
#5. At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.
Carrie Underwood
#6. I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
Harmony Korine
#7. I don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers.
Joe Montana
#8. My advice about reading is to do a lot of it.
Stephen King
#9. If you don't feel comfortable with the Red Cross, anything that you feel comfortable sending money to
that you know is going to get to the hurricane victims
send money. Because that's what you can do to help. And a lot of prayers. Lots of prayers.
Tim McGraw
#10. I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.
Emeli Sande
#11. I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat.
Lusia Strus
#12. When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.
Michelle Williams
#13. The suffragettes realized the power of getting arrested and going to prison and harassing politicians and making a nuisance of themselves. It got them a lot of attention. What they never did was set out to endanger human life except for sacrificing themselves.
Sarah Gavron
#14. Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
Adam McKay
#15. A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.
Paul Simon
#16. I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.
Al Pacino
#17. From what I've found a lot of people on Facebook are desperate for recognition and social interaction. They want me to find them, to gaze into their lives and notice them. PAY ATTENTION.
Peter Jelen
#18. No one born in the 1950s took much interest in my generation, and all we've done is try to fix it by talking to the people who came after us. I don't hang out with anyone who is 10 years older than I am, but I hang out with a lot of people who are 10 years younger.
Liam Gillick
#19. Sex in general, for me, is a lot of different aspects of humanity, not just my relationships. It's my relationship to myself and my body.
Margaret Cho
#20. A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
Tabatha Coffey
#22. I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.
Michael Richards
#23. I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.
Laura Mvula
#24. There are a lot of different beliefs for tightening up your core. I think just being conscious of it and being aware to engage your muscles will help any woman's tummy get in shape.
Brooke Burke
#25. You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors.
Andrew Shue
#26. I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.
Neko Case
#27. We're focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we're still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.
Sheryl Sandberg
#28. There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade.
Jane Goodall
#29. Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.
Skrillex
#30. There is, as Miss Marple would say, a lot of human nature in all of us.
Agatha Christie
#31. I don't drink much anymore, because it's supposedly not good for me. I still have gallons of it around though. I smell the cork and do a lot of wishing.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#32. In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, 'This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for'. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.
George Foreman
#33. We spend a lot of effort trying to make things look effortless.
Alexander Isley
#34. So biggest pussies in METAL, I'd say a lot of these emo bands come off as pussies.They have those beards and tight jeans and to me they all look so fake.
Charlie Benante
#35. To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.
Brittany Howard
#36. I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#37. Getting to communicate with many people through our shows was just great in itself and I felt a lot of energy. I think I learned what love is through our concert.
Minzy
#38. I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.
Ringo Starr
#39. A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed.
Dennis Quaid
#40. Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search ... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.
David Filo
#41. I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.
Scott Bakula
#42. When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.
John Fogerty
#43. This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas - because they simply don't know about its existence or they don't know how it operates.
Peter York
#44. A career high was when I did a cover for 'W Magazine's July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true.
Joan Smalls
#45. The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.
William Mather Lewis
#46. I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.
D.J. Cotrona
#47. I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
J. Cole
#48. Kids are really good at ignoring the heavy-handed message and getting with the fun parts. It's good they are, because adults have devoted a lot of effort writing them message thinly disguised as stories and clubbing children over the head with them.
Jo Walton
#49. I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.
Megan Smith
#50. A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.
Richard D. Zanuck
#51. I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second Amendment was designed for tyranny.
Chuck Norris
#52. People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
Gabrielle Union
#53. The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent.
Britney Spears
#54. Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.
Charles Simonyi
#55. Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but this is a mirror, an expression about Domenico and Stefano. It's not just a profession: it's a person with a lot of personality.
Stefano Gabbana
#56. One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones
Finn Juhl
#57. I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.
Eric Ripert
#58. A lot of mothers incorrectly see the meaning of their lives as being the designer or creator of their child's life
Sunday Adelaja
#59. I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.
Natalie Portman
#60. I love getting dressed up. Being a pop star is the most brilliant job for that. A lot of girls love shopping, but they might see the most amazing outfit and think, 'When am I going to wear that?', so it's my duty to exploit the fact I do have events I can wear these things to.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#61. I did theater for fun, and I didn't really think it was anything serious. I met a lot of kids through it, and it was pretty social for me.
David Lambert
#62. The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.
N. T. Wright
#63. A lot of what Groupon is generating is demand for something people didn't know they wanted.
Jeremy Stoppelman
#64. I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.
Kate Flannery
#65. I have trouble sleeping, at the end of the night. There's a lot of stimulus and my brain is processing a lot of different arcs and personalities. I'm always processing things, so I don't sleep.
Tatiana Maslany
#66. I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
Dan Hill
#67. Americans are very big about loving the dog first, so when you tell them you have to set rules and limitations, a lot of people believe it's going to hurt their feelings. They're actually looking for you to be the pack leader.
Cesar Millan
#68. I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.
Anne Hathaway
#69. Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.
Robert Smith
#70. As far as vintage Champagne goes, I loved 1990; it's a great, great vintage. I bought a lot of 1990 Blanc de Blancs Champagne - my favorite kind - and I plan on drinking it all by 2005.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#71. I'm a big foodie, I do a lot of yoga - I love yoga - I love running ... I just enjoy being really active, and traveling.
Jane Chen
#72. I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
Lauren Oliver
#73. A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.
John Trudell
#74. I think this takes a lot of courage and integrity to find your own voice and way to express not only your story, but the reality you are setting it within.
Danae Elon
#75. A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that.
Alison Brie
#76. I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.
Swizz Beatz
#77. Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
Maisie Williams
#78. I feel like in a lot of ways I've gotten kind of soft as an actor, not doing stage stuff. In terms of being a better actor, it's really important.
Paul Giamatti
#79. I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.
Kristy Swanson
#80. I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.
George Benson
#81. There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.
Ben Affleck
#82. I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.'
James Harden
#83. I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. What I loved about it was, you got paid for what you caught.
Jon Krakauer
#84. A lot of nudity in my early movies was out of necessity. When I came out to Hollywood, I didn't know anybody, I didn't have any connections. I did what a lot of people have to do in the real world, and just work up from the bottom.
Amber Heard
#85. There's a lot of cultural pressure around specialness and seeing your family. I feel like everything gets jacked up a little bit because of all of these expectations of love and family bonding.
Joe Swanberg
#86. I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.
Dan Stevens
#87. If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get scared. They're afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You don't "fail." You've "tried your best."
Jane Seymour
#88. I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.
Ryan Lochte
#89. Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but ... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'
Robert Wilson
#90. Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways.
John L. Phillips
#91. Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.
Robert Jordan
#92. I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.
Jeff VanderMeer
#93. I think you can realise that a lot of people in bands - well - I guess you kinda wanna ... There's a lot less mystique in playing in a rock band today, than in the 60's or 70's. I don't think there's any bands that I can think of, that have this rock god myth that like Led Zeppelin had.
Chris Baio
#94. If in the sex scene you happen to be naked in front of a lot of other people you've just got to put that aside, in the same way that you have to put that aside in a fully-clothed intense dialogue scene because you're entering into that particular imaginative state of play.
Geoffrey Rush
#95. I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.
Sara Shepard
#96. People say, "Why is it that you love to act?" And you want to say, "Well, most of acting is sitting in your trailer, either bored or worried about the scene coming up." A lot of it is about things you don't really like, so it's a wonder why acting is such a huge draw, why everyone loves it so much.
Anjelica Huston
#97. That's not true. I did not have sexual intercourse with Lindsay Lohan ... A lot of people probably did, I don't know, [but I did not].
Adam Levine
#98. People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.
Rickey Henderson
#99. Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.
Joss Whedon
#100. Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.
Phil Klay
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