Top 100 It's Not That Quotes
#1. Don't you see, Stef? It's not that I'm serving Valdemar, it's that I'm helping to preserve the kind of people who leave the world better than they found it, and trying to stop the ones who take instead of giving.
Mercedes Lackey
#2. The point is, this is what happens when advertising and data collection is the dominant business mode. We are encouraged to be compulsive. It's not that we're terrible addicts who need to go to an AA meeting and get off our gadgets.
Astra Taylor
#3. Maybe it's not that it's too quiet now, maybe it was too loud before?
David Moody
#4. It's not that I'm confident, but I feel it's okay for me to continue taking photos.
Rinko Kawauchi
#5. It's not that I had more important things to do or that I didn't want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful - rather, it's this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.
Tucker Elliot
#6. I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!
Yasmine Bleeth
#7. It's not that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity runs in your family ... It's that no one runs in you family!
Tony Robbins
#8. It's not that I'm necessarily looking for things that are so dark and emotional. But if I see something where the character goes through enormous change, it's very appealing to play all those levels, and that is probably going to involve some dark moments.
Tracy Pollan
#9. You're telling someone in a wheelchair 'Walking is awesome. You should get up and walk.' It's not that easy.
Jeff Zentner
#10. There are tons of things I'd love to do. I want to do comedy. It's not that I don't want to play a superhero, but I got to play Conan and Drogo.
Jason Momoa
#11. Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.
Dane Cook
#12. If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that ... hard.
Ethan Canin
#13. You know that Yeti-beard doesn't make you look more manly, right?" Dean says cheerfully as we walk out the door.
Tuck shrugs. "I was going for rugged, actually."
I snicker. "Well, it's not that, either, Babyface. You look like a mad scientist.
Elle Kennedy
#14. It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don't capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore.
Alex Ebert
#15. It's not that you said it. I care that you even though it.
Kekla Magoon
#16. We have to see that the economy is not "in" crisis, the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work, it's that there is too much of it.
The Invisible Committee
#17. It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different categories, and we are all taking footnotes from everyone else. There are no real genre boundaries anymore; you can take a trance idea and put it into a trap record - it's not that uncommon.
Steve Aoki
#18. Riley stared at him. "How do you just say that stuff?"
"What do you mean? How do I just say shit without thinking about it? I dunno. I just do. It's not that hard. Just try it sometime."
"Okay," Riley said, and then he said, "I love you.
Avon Gale
#19. It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.
Gayle Forman
#20. Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it's changing. It truly is. I'm optimistic but skeptical.
David Maraniss
#21. I give dating advice on a regular basis. It's not that I'm any expert, but it's always nice to share that with your friends.
Ashley Tisdale
#22. I was over there in Hawaii. I was there on the big island. The 'Big Island' - that name cracks me up. First of all, it's not that big, so I'm pretty sure a guy came up with that name.
Carol Leifer
#23. If now in some ways I drink too much, it's not that I lack a reverence for the world.
Sheila Heti
#24. Mainly, it's not that there are things you can't say. It's that there are things you can't say without the risk that people who previously lacked a voice might use their own freedom of speech to object.
Oliver Burkeman
#25. It's not that I'm some detached lab animal just conditioned to ignore violence, but my first instinct is maybe it's not too late to dab club soda on the bloodstain.
Chuck Palahniuk
#26. And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it's not that easy.
Elizabeth Scott
#27. But if you don't decide what needs to be done about your secretary's birthday, because it's "not that important" right now, that open loop will take up energy and prevent you from having a totally effective, clear focus on what is important.
David Allen
#28. It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.
Nick Harkaway
#29. It's not that I don't like pants, I just choose not to wear them some days.
Lady Gaga
#30. It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.
Susie Bright
#31. It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.
Ziyi Zhang
#32. What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.
Skeet Ulrich
#33. It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
Veronica Roth
#34. I'm always talking to people. It's not that complicated. I just find somebody and say, "Do you have any ideas." If they do, we just start thinking things around.
Judd Apatow
#35. It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#36. One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.
Val Kilmer
#37. If you really wanted it you would figure out a way to get it. If it were that VALUABLE to you, you would make it happen. So it's not that you can't afford it. It's just that you don't value it enough to do what it would take to get it.
Kate Northrup
#38. It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.
Seneca.
#39. Can't anyone ever start a fight without all the posturing and cheesy Bond-villain threats? It's not that hard. Here, let me demonstrate. And he smashed a fist into Colin's nose.
Julie Kagawa
#40. When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
Maggie Q
#41. The key is to be quiet. It's not that
your mind has to be quiet. You be quiet.
You, the one inside watching the
neurotic mind, just relax.
Michael Singer
#42. We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.
Travis Barker
#43. It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.
Mariel Hemingway
#44. You can show a guy sort of peeking over the wall, you can see a guy tunneling underneath, you can see a guy going through the front door. All of those, in cyber terms, are vulnerabilities, because it's not that you have to look for one hole of a specific type. It's the whole paradigm.
Edward Snowden
#45. Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.
Carol Bartz
#46. I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.
J.J. Abrams
#47. I've been thinking a
lot and it's not that anyone did anything wrong. We just didn't know what we wanted. We weren't the
people we were supposed to be yet,
Joe Meno
#49. Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.
Martin Freeman
#50. It's not that heroes have no fear; it's just that they understand what it takes, to get the job done!!
Robert Armstrong
#51. It's not that difficult to win. It's more difficult to win consistently and stay on top.
Jim Otto
#52. It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.
Bob Thaves
#53. People found me ugly and weird looking. All those years of that whole insecurity thing just makes you feel horrible then really slowly you start to think if they can make me look nice in the picture then it's not that bad.
Lara Stone
#54. It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve that have become more sophisticated.
Jodee Blanco
#55. I've definitely grown apart from a lot of my friends. Some of them don't understand the schedule, and it's not that I don't want to talk to them, it's that sometimes I am really busy and can't get back to them.
Mila Kunis
#56. It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
Zac Efron
#57. When you're traveling on a body of songs that you have played for many, many years, for most nights of your life - I'm sure you've experienced this yourself - it's not that every night is not it's own thing. It is.
Ted Leo
#58. You just ignore it! It's not that you don't care anymore, it's that you stop listening and paying attention to it. Because everybody has an opinion. Talk is cheap - it's free! And I say that like, if you don't like the stuff I have to say, pay me no mind - it will cost you nothing.
Donald Faison
#59. Perhaps it's not that I'm frigid
it's that once I decide I like a guy, I turn into a raging idiot, unfit for public appearances.
Rachel Cohn
#60. It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.
Richard Griffiths
#61. Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.
Shelley Long
#62. The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.
Mick Jagger
#63. It's not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives rise to the violence. And in my view, this is why this is such a global problem.
Tony Blair
#64. I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
Terence McKenna
#65. The Filipino mind is always imagining new and exciting ideas while his/her spirit gets the vision for the ultimate victory. It's not that what they wish for is so extraordinary, but that their faith adds to its realization.
Tim Liwanag
#66. I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.
Kelly Macdonald
#67. It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
It's not a weakness.
It's your best strength.
Patrick Ness
#68. It's not that I'm afraid to die, it's only the road to death that terrifies me, for sometimes it can be so drawn out.
V.C. Andrews
#69. There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money ... Jennifer Lawrence ... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.
Patrick Whitesell
#70. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Abbas Naqvi
#71. A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
Elizabeth Edwards
#72. It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#73. No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
Carlos Fuentes
#74. Maybe it's not that I'm a Mysterious Girl. Maybe it's that I'm a Not Good Enough Girl.
Jenny Han
#75. It's not that we don't have talent in our country; the talent is, in fact, not required today.
Shreya Ghoshal
#76. We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.
Melina Marchetta
#77. It's not that introverts aren't good team players. We just don't need to be in the same room as the rest of the team at all times. We would much prefer to have part of the project carved out for us to squirrel away with it in our offices, consulting as necessary but working independently.
Sophia Dembling
#78. It's not that white guys shouldn't be allowed to engage in discussions on race in America. But there's nothing more exhausting than white male liberals' dogmatisms on race that were clearly formed during a conversation they had with that one black guy they met back in college.
John Ridley
#79. If I see a live show and it doesn't have the aspect of danger where it could potentially go wrong, it's not that interesting to me.
Andrew Wyatt
#80. I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.
Rick Danko
#81. You do scenes with certain people, all the time, and you know them so well. It's not that it can become predictable, but it's the same thing. So, when you have new people in the mix, it's so refreshing.
Crystal Reed
#82. It's not that I wait for you.
It's that my arms are doors I cannot close.
Derrick Brown
#83. It's not that bad. Conspiracy theories come up whenever people feel like the universe is too random. Absurd. If it's all an enemy plot, at least there's someone calling the shots.
James S.A. Corey
#84. My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they actually are inferior and they secretly know it.
Gregory Heisler
#85. Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.
Larry David
#86. It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
Kate Bush
#87. We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.
Noreena Hertz
#88. 'Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.
Katie Leung
#89. Hollywood is a small town, believe it or not. I see the same people over and over, so it's not that overwhelming or crazy as you might think.
Mark Salling
#90. It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
Gabriele Nanni
#91. Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious-but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.
James C. Collins
#92. You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.
Anita Roddick
#93. Nothing funny about happy people. I don't know, you just look at a situation or a life, and you can kind of pick up the areas of conflict and delve in there, because that's where the most story is. If someone's happily married for 20 years, that's great, but it's not that funny.
Kate Beaton
#94. It's not that I'm angry;
You've done nothing wrong.
I'm just not sure why I'm staying
When you're already gone.
Margo T. Rose
#95. People don't want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they're worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it's not that people are always worth it, it's that love is.
Donna Lynn Hope
#96. It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.
Burton Malkiel
#97. It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?
Jonathan Miller
#98. The core idea that underlies all of our democratic states, the core political idea, is this idea that it's not that one person is the sovereign; it's that all of the people are sovereign.
Noah Feldman
#99. I live in L.A., I grew up here, it's not that crazy for me because it's L.A., you know?
Michael Welch
#100. Eight shows in six days can become very tiring - actually, a grind. It's not that I ever dreaded going to work because I always maintained a level of gratitude.
James Snyder
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