Top 100 I Don't Always Quotes
#1. I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.
Robert Breault
#3. I look for you in every life, but I don't always find you. And sometimes I find you too late.
Kirsten Miller
#4. Everyday I attempt to consume 4,000 Calories and 200 grams of protein. I don't always reach that mark but when I go to bed at night I know that I did the best I could given my schedule and the circumstances that day.
Robert Cheeke
#5. I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.
Heidi Klum
#6. I don't love everything I do, and I don't always like how I am in it. I'm not always pleased.
Richard Kind
#7. I sometimes find myself sitting here not watching an uninteresting movie and contemplating the future. I don't always know what to do, but I have faith that I'll figure it out somehow.
D.S. Mixell
#8. I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better.
Dan Bejar
#9. I'm an attorney when I'm not writing comics, and have been for years. That's a side of my life I don't always associate with pure creativity, but it's all worked out nicely.
Charles Soule
#10. I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.
Dacia Maraini
#11. I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.
Yo-Yo Ma
#12. I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.
Bryant Gumbel
#13. I don't always make the best choices, but today I choose compassion over intolerance, sympathy over hatred and love over fear.
L.J. Vanier
#14. Constantly travelling means I don't always get to eat well - so it's probably a good idea for me to do some exercise.
Eliza Doolittle
#15. I sometimes want to do totally different roles. I don't always want to play 'wholesome.'
Keke Palmer
#16. Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#17. I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.
Selma Blair
#18. I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
Erin Morgenstern
#19. I don't always make the best decisions, I don't always take the best advice, I don't always let the "small things" roll off, but I always try.
Emma Paul
#20. Books. I needed to ground myself and nothing, not even the Jay, quite does it like books. I don't always have the focus to read them but I sure do need them around
Ken Bruen
#21. In the midst of chaos I draw closer to God. I've learned to trust in him no matter what. I'm so thankful for the lessons he has and will teach me. Even when I don't always get it the first time.
Amanda Penland
#22. Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.
Becky G
#23. I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right.
Muhammad Ali
#24. I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer not to. Stay sober my friends.
Ryan Higa
#25. I love you. I don't always understand you, but I love you.
Janet Gurtler
#26. I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc ... I'm like a composer with a symphony in their head: I can hear the music, I just have to figure out how to put it down on paper. But I don't always know where my stories are going when I begin.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
#27. Most of the time, I see what I see, I search my feelings, and then I make my decisions based on my gut - and I don't always make the right ones.
Pharrell Williams
#28. I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.
Mandy Patinkin
#29. I don't always match up with guys like Dwight Howard or Andrew Bynum, but when I do, those guys are a challenge. Dwight, for example, is quick, explosive, and strong all in one.
Kris Humphries
#30. I don't always burn my bridges, but when I do, I like there to be no survivors.
Ursula Vernon
#31. And while I tell him all my thoughts, I don't always share my secrets.
Alex Adams
#32. I try to do a lot of asymmetrical, triangular compositions - I find those work really well for comic book covers in that portrait mode, and I don't always see that in other artists.
Jim Lee
#33. I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!
Liz Phair
#34. I don't always want a big meal after work - just some crisps and wine!
Saffron Burrows
#35. I don't always understand poetry!'
'You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it ... whenever.
Alan Bennett
#36. I've never been a person who focused on trends. I'm influenced and inspired by trends, but I don't always subscribe to them.
Emmy Rossum
#37. I usually know what kind of song I'm after. I know what I'm trying to do when I start. I don't always get there. But I try to visualize what it's actually going to be.
Jimmy Webb
#38. I don't always feel what I know I should feel.
My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly
Because the suit men made it wear weighs it down.
Alberto Caeiro
#39. Stung again by this queen bee of the Loren clan, Marissa shook it off and retorted, See, that's just it. I don't always love Jack Storm. But with all my heart I love Jack Loren.
Lisa Gillis
#40. I don't always do what I should but I do what I gotta do.
August Alsina
#41. The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.
Nick Flynn
#42. I travel with a bunch of battery packs because I don't always have time to charge my phone at the hotel room when I'm traveling. I always change them, so I never run out of battery.
Avicii
#43. I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though I don't always like to listen to it. It's like living in a house where everything's painted red.
Paul Desmond
#45. I love constructive criticism. I love getting notes when I'm acting. I love them telling me what to do. I don't always agree with it, but I really need it.
Kumail Nanjiani
#46. My love ... I don't always want you tied up. I want you free. I want you wild. I want you brave. I want you any way I can get you. I want you now, and I want you for the rest of my life.
L. H. Cosway
#47. Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.
Saul Williams
#48. I'm a mom, but I don't always want to look just like that.
Kim Gordon
#49. I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.
Jenny Slate
#50. I don't always see humor in things. Especially when I smash my pinky toe into a coffee table leg in the middle of the night. But sometimes I'll see things, or experience things, that make me go, "Huh, maybe that's a bit."
Brian Regan
#51. I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.
Kirsty Gallacher
#52. I don't always succeed in creating a delicious dinner for my family; I would, however, argue for the likely success of Taco Night. Who doesn't love a taco? Make it with veggie crumbles! Add fish! Have you tried ground buffalo? The results are always impressive.
Corin Tucker
#53. One set of circumstances does not complete you. Maybe nothing ever does. So you work on your life and you work on your 'work' and you try to live every single day like it's your last. And you try to be better, to yourself and to others. I don't always succeed. But I try and it's my goal.
Madonna Ciccone
#54. I am a woman. I don't always act rationally, especially when it's a week before my period, my brain was still strung out from orgasms, and I was looking at another woman's lipstick on my man.
Alessandra Torre
#55. I've been touring a lot, and I don't always know how to get around. Google Maps on the iPhone is pretty helpful with that.
Joe Trohman
#56. My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.
Chris Bohjalian
#57. I don't always understand my worth.
Ann Curry
#58. I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It's closest to the choreography of a bee. You're freer.
Tom Waits
#59. I'm a sinner. I don't always love God as strongly as I could or as directly as I should. Ash Wednesday reminds me that it is only through God that I have life; He gave it to me. God forgives. He loves. And He gives this sinner a second chance. Put simply: my God kicks ash.
Mark Hart
#60. With the way I dress, I think my personality shows, so I don't always have to talk. Someone can see what I'm wearing, see what socks I'm wearing, and see what my vibe is, what kind of person I am
Dwyane Wade
#61. My lying is a second skin by now, so easy to forget it's there, so I don't always remember that lying is actually an art, and those who aren't meticulous about it are easily exposed.
Jillian Cantor
#62. Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
Kate Smith
#63. I have to learn to find that inner core of strength that I am definitely made up of and stretch it into areas where I don't always use it.
Jodie Andrefski
#64. Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.
Leonora Carrington
#65. A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.
Lyle Lovett
#66. I usually tell somebody if a song's for them. I don't always tell them if it's about them.
Guy Garvey
#67. I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.
Emma Watson
#68. Well, I don't think of myself as a diva. I'm too dorky! Look at my shoes. (Points to the aforementioned sneakers.) I always look like this. I don't always want to be "working."
Tyra Banks
#69. I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.
Lucinda Williams
#70. I folded my arms. "I don't usually do stakeouts."
"I thought it might be a nice change of pace for you. All that knocking down of doors and burning down of buildings must get tiring."
"I don't always knock down doors," I said. "Sometimes it's a wall.
Jim Butcher
#71. How do you choose your books?' my friends had asked. Less than a week into my project, I can now tell them the beginning of the truth. I don't always choose the books, I'll say. Sometimes the books choose me.
Sara Nelson
#72. If I know what my finale is when I'm writing a screenplay, then I don't always have to chart out every scene before that. I can adequately find my way. I'm experienced enough to do that.
David Twohy
#73. I don't always choose to stay fit by playing tennis, because that comes with its own wear-and-tear.
Andre Agassi
#74. I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.
Jonathan Pryce
#75. I try to think of the songs as little movies. They're always pretty visual to me. I can always sort of see them. I don't always know what the end result is going to be, and I don't know exactly what it's going to sound like, but I can kinda see them.
Neko Case
#76. I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.
Erik Hassle
#77. I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.
Joanna Trollope
#78. I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.
Paul Merton
#79. I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.
Joyce Carol Oates
#80. I always want to sing, but I don't always want to be trying to have No. 1 records. I don't think you can do it forever. I don't know what the time span of that is going to be. I want to sing because I want to sing.
Trisha Yearwood
#81. I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.
Zooey Deschanel
#82. I don't always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else.
Elisabetta Canalis
#83. It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.
Rick Warren
#84. I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
William Gibson
#85. Honestly, I can't survive without my MAC gloss, pigment - sometimes MAC powder. But definitely my gloss and pigment and liner. I don't do mascara all the time. I do when I wear no lashes. I use the mascara, but when I wear lashes, I don't always do mascara, because it makes it real heavy sometimes.
Lil' Kim
#86. I always see celebs in very weird spots. I don't always go to fancy-shmancy places, but I see celebs at coffee shops or random stores, when you're looking for a sweater and turn around like, 'OMG, that's Fred Savage!'
Ross Mathews
#87. Protein is important and hard for me to get in a hurry. We're busy. I don't always remember to thaw the chicken for dinner. I always have eggs, and they're light and satisfying. I never feel stuffed at the end of it.
Summer Sanders
#88. I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.
Louis C.K.
#89. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
Zachary Quinto
#90. I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.
R.C. Sproul
#91. Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
Carine Roitfeld
#92. I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#93. I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but it sounds like fun.
Claes Oldenburg
#94. I don't always have to sing a song. There is something besides 'The Man That Got Away' or 'Over the Rainbow' or 'The Trolley Song.' There's a woman. There are three children. There's me! There's a lot of life going here.
Judy Garland
#95. I don't always do what I say but if you want to follow my actions, be my guest. You can do what I do and fail, or you can do what I say and move on with your life. It's your choice.
Nicketa Gomes
#96. I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
Patrick Marber
#97. I do the best I can to approve and disapprove only of my own behavior. I don't always succeed, but I try. I'm trying now and I'm going to keep at it.
Robert B. Parker
#98. I don't always want to play the wacky, crazy parts. I love having the opportunity to play a regular person in an irregular situation in a very realistic way.
Jon Gries
#99. I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.
Ani DiFranco
#100. I've learned when to speak out. You do have to learn when to bide your time and when to speak out, and I don't always get it right.
Cherie Blair
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